Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind on his way to the Company mess. In half an hour he was back in the squad room, policing up around his bunk, making the bed, straightening out his steel wall locker. At 7:35 there was a whistle again. Out for inspection poured Company F of the gist Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron: a scanty 54 enlisted men out of an authorized strength...
...Democracy," said Lenin, "is sometimes useful. But production is always useful." The Kremlin has kept that relative emphasis. Last week it issued a production report for the first twelve months of the new Five-year Plan. The gist...
...gist of it: there are two systems of television-all electronic (RCA), which has yet to go beyond black & white, and will not have color before 1951; part-mechanical (CBS), which has already developed color telecasting. The 12,000 U.S. sets today are black & white electronic, and many experts contend that in the end some sort of electronic method will be universally adopted for colors. It is up to FCC to decide whether color shall be introduced now, with mechanical television, or whether it must wait on all electronic development. Until FCC makes up its mind, few want...
...important to note that the United Mine Workers in their trial of the issues actually waived their claims for walking-time on the employer's premises, before punching the time-clocks and for time spent in preliminary activities-the very gist of the Mt. Clemens decision...
...humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...