Word: informativeness
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...more amazed than amazing [TIME, May 1]. When your valued periodical reached me, I . . . measured the Baldwin shelf. To be accurate, the two shelves sagging under the output of somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there...
...three mousy women adorns an ad saying, culturally, "To inform the population: The Moscow Clothing Trust sells all-readymade women's dresses of silk, wool and cotton." A woman's stocking ad cries up the virtues of "a new fiber called Kapron," presumably a Soviet nylon. "They mold the leg nicely, wash easily, keep shape and color...
Candidates for chorister should inform G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music at the Music Building...
...purpose of the organization is "to inform students of the problems affecting American Negroes and other minority groups; to stimulate an appreciation of the contributions of these groups to American civilization; and to point out injustices done to people of minority groups...
...borders his country on the north, Britain's ministers seemed far more willing to heed his wishes than those of the Bamangwato. This week in Serowe, 35 Bamangwato elders refused to go to a special Kgotla meeting called by Britain's High Commissioner Sir Evelyn Baring to inform the Bamangwato of the government's decision. "We cannot," they said, "attend any tribal meeting in the absence of our true chief Seretse...