Word: informant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies. Even after cases have been used in the class room they are sometimes further revised and rewritten on the basis of class discussion. If an investigator does not have a talent for the work, inaccuracies in the case material or letters from antagonized business executives will inform him of that fact. Generally, the snoopermen are welcomed with enthusiasm and royally entertained. Some executives are flattered by the request to "give students the benefit of your experience," and in the words of a researcher, "damn near talk your ear off." All recognize their opportunity to "contribute to better business education...
...correspondence with editors was just as lively. The Daily Chronicle wrote him furiously: "Dear Sir, I am directed by the editor to inform you that he will see you damned before he gives you more than ?5 for the article in question." Shaw replied: "Dear Sir, Please inform the editor that I will see him and you and the whole Chronicle staff boiled in hell before I will do it for that money...
...there is a mission which is peculiar to the Press-the mission to inform. Through all the alarms of the future, the true journalist will continue to believe in the paramount importance of the purely informative function of journalism. There is where his conscience will be most especially engaged. And his proudest boast will be that he has fearlessly, eagerly and effectively transmitted significant information from the boisterous newsfronts of the world into the minds of living and literate and free people...
...manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than 85% of our production of rum is guzzled in the States and of the remaining 15% a goodly part is imbibed in Cuba libres by our resident continental fellow citizens. And as to our island being feverish, let me tell you that the only fever that...
Another 'we regret to inform you' has come from the Navy to sadden our entire community, said the Cochran (Ga.) Journal. James Forehand of Cochran, Georgia fought in the battles of Bataan and Corregidor! It makes us all proud...