Word: informativeness
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...wish to inform you that I have never uttered either the words or the substance of this alleged quotation. I should be glad if, with your usual courtesy, you will print this denial in your next issue...
...Please inform the writer of the article "Breakthrough," under caption "Weather" [TIME, Dec. 31], that it was a privilege to have endured the recent storms-inasmuch as it has given us the pleasure of reading his beautifully written account...
Pappy promptly entered a righteous protest: "She hypnotized me." Then he instructed his lawyer to inform Mrs. Malcomson's lawyer that there would be no wedding. Hurriedly he bundled Frances off Las Vegas, got married before a justice of peace...
...spirit of the workshop . . . should inform every part of school. There should be a workshop for letters where poems and stories are made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but the goal of science is important. . . . Cookery, for example, is a better discipline in our schools than chemistry. The ingredients of a cake are science, art and good sense, all of which can be blended there into a very pretty simulacrum of the good life...
...then Germany had been smashed to pieces, Japan had bowed itself into national nonentity, the atom bomb had been dropped. The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima had blown apart man's conscience and his sense of civilized security. For the first time in history man, who still could not inform with life one submicroscopic particle of matter, found within his grasp the power to destroy creation...