Word: informativeness
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Someone ought to inform dear Monica that we are electing a President and not a reigning family come November. She sounds like a strong argument for the repeal of woman suffrage...
...came to Mount Auburn to lose themselves in the shady walks. James Russell Lowell used to wander through Mount Auburn's glades "in pursuit of poetic thoughts," according to one noted writer, who also noted that Franklin Pierce was lost in thought under a tree there when he was informed that he had been nominated to the Presidency. Of course, we too were lost in contemplation, but since no one rushed to inform us of any impending elections, or great poetical thoughts, we just thought of the mist and the rain...
After three years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, Gates had returned to college this fall. According to his brother, Henry T. Gates '60 of Matthews Hall, he had failed to inform his parents before joining the Marines at the end of his freshman year. The younger Gates added that he had no fear for his brother's safety...
...opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...Communists in the New York City school system and the dismissal of one municipal college professor, New York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. ruled that though a public-school teacher must tell all about his own past activities, his superiors have no right to force him to inform on others. "A school system," said Allen, "which sets one teacher against another in this manner is not conducive toward the strength and cohesion which need to exist in order to instill character into the student body...