Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to Mr. Robert W. Miller's comment about the used-car dealers [TIME, June 13], I would like to inform him that there are many honest car dealers . . . [who] have refrained from taking money under the table and collecting bonuses...
...with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times all priests are conscience-bound to inform the faithful of the true state of affairs." Beran and the bishops added that priests who refused to read their letter would be "subject to ecclesiastical discipline...
Seventy-eight percent said that their Departments had not "made an effective effort to inform, students about careers open to them," while just 28 percent thought chances of getting a job "very good." This last figure, Dean Wild added, "reflects deteriorating employment conditions...
...prep-school editors of the Next Voter, a political semimonthly at Massachusetts' Brooks School, rose to a point of order. They had noted that Colonel Bertie McCormick calls his Chicago Tribune "the world's greatest newspaper." Said the Next Voter: "Full pages of advertisements . . . inform us almost daily that such & such a newspaper, magazine or periodical has the greatest circulation, is read by the most influential people, or is the most successful one in some way or other. Have these superlatives really any meaning? . . . Is it not possible, contrary to all rules of grammar, that a great newspaper...
This is to inform you that the statement of NSA delegate, Edward F. LaCroix '48, in Friday's CRIMSON regarding the Harvard Displaced Persons Project was unauthorized and, in one respect, factually incorrect...