Word: informativeness
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...lift my voice up for Harvard and find to my horror that I am surrounded by Amherstians. Last Saturday I thought to profit by my error. I entered through a different gate, selected a very different seat position. This time I confidently inform my neighbors that Harvard is my hope, whereupon said neighbors commence to bellow out: "B-R-O-W-N." I felt a long ways from home. If ever, dear reader, you witness a football match in Australia, don't "barrack" (cheer) for Balmain among the Newtonites. You may never see the Statue of Liberty again...
...Margate Conference delegates leaped to their feet brandishing agenda papers like swords and shouted in unison: "What we have we hold! We hold! WE HOLD!" This Tory spectacle came just before the Conference voted with virtual unanimity the strongest possible resolution demanding that the Government inform Germany that the question of returning any British territory to the Reich "is not a discussible question...
...profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world, the Raceway cost $1,000,000, which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening as cars roll around the rolls. Stands and infield will hold 160,000 spectators, which Roosevelt Raceway hopes to draw twice a year hereafter, on Independence and Columbus Days...
...Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer, and it has been placed in a handsome plate-glass case, and is on display in the office...
Last month enthusiastic Editor Nelson went out to the Eisele farm to inform Mrs. Eisele in advance that she had won the Crowell prize. Two hours later happy Mrs. Eisele had a baby. Said she: "I was stunned but the stork wasn't.... He brought...