Word: informativeness
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...prep-school editors of the Next Voter, a political semimonthly at Massachusetts' Brooks School, rose to a point of order. They had noted that Colonel Bertie McCormick calls his Chicago Tribune "the world's greatest newspaper." Said the Next Voter: "Full pages of advertisements . . . inform us almost daily that such & such a newspaper, magazine or periodical has the greatest circulation, is read by the most influential people, or is the most successful one in some way or other. Have these superlatives really any meaning? . . . Is it not possible, contrary to all rules of grammar, that a great newspaper...
This is to inform you that the statement of NSA delegate, Edward F. LaCroix '48, in Friday's CRIMSON regarding the Harvard Displaced Persons Project was unauthorized and, in one respect, factually incorrect...
...Goldsmith, 83 (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 29) was permanently enjoined last week by the New York State Supreme Court from selling any more stock-market letters. The court ruled that as Goldsmith got his tips from the comic strips and departed spirits (instead of "recognized sources") and did not inform his clients of his sources, his letters were worthless...
...work he created was a vast chronicle of the seizure of the land from the Indians by the French, the defeat of their "effete and cumbrous feudalism" by the English. In the final pages he discussed the defeat of England in turn by the colonies. His purpose was to inform the people of the struggles that had been necessary to win the continent for them, to warn them against the practices that had lost it for their predecessors...
Churchill, in spite of honest differences with Ike, always backed him up. During the campaign in France, says Ike, "Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Brooke took occasion to inform me that they also were prepared, at any moment I expressed dissatisfaction with any of my principal British subordinates, to replace him instantly." This unity of command, says Eisenhower, was one of the great achievements...