Word: informant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto-racing world by winning the first 500-mile Indianapolis auto race at an average speed of 74 m.p.h. More startling still was the fact that he drove around the two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval without a mechanic at his side-relying on a mirror to inform him of what his opponents were doing behind his back. Since that day, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the proving ground for many another automotive innovation: balloon tires, four-wheel brakes, Ethyl gasoline, straight-eight motors. But to auto-racing fans, the annual Indianapolis Memorial Day classic is just...
...February, more than 500 portroselves have been taken. Service will be continued next fall. On Wednesday, the portro-self room was found locked with the camera mysteriously missing. The room had not been locked the night before. Anyone having knowledge of the fate of the camera is asked to inform the CRIMSON...
...Album board is glad to inform anyone verbally of the results of all questions on the poll," Donnell said. "since we have tabulated them and are in a position to announce the figures. But we do not feel that we are obliged to publish all the results in an article of this type...
...exactly what stake, political and economic, this country has in an Allied victory. He has not said yes or no to the question of whether we should advance credit to the Allies. The country has to depend on "inside" newspaper stories to find out. The Government says a well-informed public opinion is necessary to an intelligent foreign policy, but does nothing to inform...
...client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies, thinking in terms of touch, hearing, smell. Handshakes and voices inform him of individuals he meets, except for Mrs. Nance's niece, Sophie Madron, who intrigues him by not shaking hands. He deduces that she is a more passionate as well as a more fastidious person than the others, and soon finds evidence that he is right...