Word: informal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason we have always used a direct appeal to students is that we feel it is the best way to interest and inform them of the work of a tuberculosis association, for we realize that college students represent the future leaders of their respective communities...
...Richmond, Old School Stylist James Branch Cabell, who knows a lot of words, broke his accustomed silence to inform his publishers that he was writing a new book. "I do not think that to announce the book as 'in preparation,' " wrote Cabell, bringing memories of the oldtime Cabellian vocabulary thronging, "should be regarded as hubris...
...Will you please inform a waiting world what else, besides wearing the hat and traveling in silence [TIME, Oct. 20], Greta Garbo is doing...
...writer," writes Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Aug. 4), "has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last...
Although the Navy Department in a statement last week promised to inform veterans organizations on the methods of obtaining World War II and American Theater Medals for their members, they have not yet done so according to Stanley G. Karson '48, AVC chairman...