Word: informativeness
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...break his chain. He went to fight for the Greeks in their war of liberation from the Turks. In the midst of it all, he still found time to turn out verse and to twit an erring friend back home: "Pray who is the lady? The papers merely inform by dint of asterisks that she is somebody's wife and has children ... It is to be hoped that the jury will be bachelors...
...Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform them...
...days, not more than seven Communist representatives for each 1,000 prisoners will "explain to all the prisoners of war . . . their rights and ... inform them of any matters relating to their return to their homelands, particularly of their full freedom to return home to lead a peaceful life." The Communist agents will be allowed radio communication with their headquarters, but the neutral commissioners and U.N. observers will be permitted to keep an eye on all the "explaining" sessions...
...failed to answer was "pertinent to the question under inquiry." In the Bowers case the application of this principle meant that a defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could not be convicted of contempt for his refusal to state what business he carried on in Chicago in 1927, to inform the Committee how he had earned $5000 in 1942, or to say whether he know William Johnson, the president of four dog tracks in Florida. These questions, together with others, the court stated did not appear on their face or in context "to pertain to the investigation which was being...
Samuel A. Olevson '54, past president and now membership chairman of the UN Council, said that he had an eight or nine page brief to present to Watson. This brief, he claimed, would inform the dean of the Council's value to college extra-curricular activities. Cutting off the livelihood of the group would "eventually cause Harvard University to be the loser. Essentially, there is no difference between presenting football games commercially and showing films for a profit...