Word: informativeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This committee, organized organized in Faneuil Hall under the leadership of James Otis to advocate unity among the colonies, is being duplicated by the Council of Democracy in order to inform interested citizens of difficulties and problems which are now facing the country...
...Director of the Passport and Permit Office presents his compliments to Mrs.- , and, in reply to her further appeal, regrets to inform her that, further consideration having been given to her case, it is not possible to make an exception to the general rules governing the grant of permits in her favour...
When you mentioned Arizona's Senator Ashurst orating to the cacti in the Sept. 23 issue of TIME, it prompted us to inform you that Flagstaff, the honorable Senator's home town, has no cacti, being 7,000 feet elevation and in the heart of the largest pine forest in the world. Cacti such as the Senator would lecture to, as you state, do not grow at such an elevation. Flagstaff has neither cacti nor reptiles as one naturally expects in Arizona...
...they are dinosaur tracks-his atavistic hackles will rise at the sight. Inside the house (if his wife has really been doing her stuff) he will be confronted with another petrified spoor, set in a vertical slab under the mantelpiece. At that point in will bounce his wife, to inform him that the footprints are indeed dinosaur tracks, real dinosaur tracks, and cost only...
...first task of the conscientious objector is to fix in his own mind what his conscience will permit him to do. Then he must inform himself exactly as to the type of work involved in the various jobs that will be thrust at him, so that he will not blunder into something that violates his convictions. Having done this, he is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system...