Word: gist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Karl Friedrich Meyer, 89, Swiss-American virologist-bacteriolo-gist-epidemiologist; of cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
...Crimson's headline article of Monday, Feb. 15 entitled "H-R Chinese Group Plans East Asia Tenure Inquiry," needs to be clarified and corrected. However, a little background information is necessary before one can understand the gist of the situation concerning...
WILLIAM G. GIST...
...gist of his first point was that if moral concern were to keep American oil companies out of Angola and other similarly troubled areas, then the European companies would take their places. What kind of moral concern is this? Since when is true moral restraint compromised by considering what others might do? If we abhor the atrocities which Portugal is perpetrating on the Angolans, how can we condone corporate support of the Portuguese on the ground that European oil companies will pick up where we leave off? There will always be some one willing to make money through direct...
...election to office two years ago, Bakalis held six regional hearings, gathering suggestions and discussing them at a meeting of 3,000 citizens. "We pour our money and, more importantly, our children into the public schools and are given no accounting of what happens to either," was the gist of many complaints. Out of 20 Ibs. of testimony, Bakalis and his associates drew up a set of common goals for Illinois schools in the 1970s, the only ten-year plan of its kind in the U.S. Bakalis promises to experiment with more plans for individualized, go-at-your-own-speed...