Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gist of Archivist Goapka's findings: the Willkie family did not emigrate 90 years ago in search of freedom, after Germany's abortive Revolution of 1848, but ten years later, because a Jew named Gerson did them out of the coppersmithy...
...German publication Natur und Kultur, ten authors launched violent attacks on the doctrine of organic evolution, accepted as an ABC fact by all biologists of standing in free countries. Gist of the German argument: Adolf Hitler and other splendid Aryans could not conceivably have evolved from...
Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...
...willingness to stake its reputation that television was ready to go. Less than mum were editorial writers who thundered at what seemed to be arbitrary restriction of a new and promising industry. To answer them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers might have to discard them as obsolescent. To make his statement...
Three weeks ago, when Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis freed 91 players from Detroit (TIME, Jan. 29), rival major-league club owners let 90 of these uncaged Tiger cubs amble back to cover, but put out hell-for-leather after the gist: 22-year-old Benny McCoy...