Word: informativeness
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...newsworthy article on the William Jennings Bryan University and its first graduating class [TIME, June 25]. Mr. Bryan was an ordained elder in our Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and although he was hopelessly outvoted by a church which is fast slipping into Modernism and Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly slur with which an ungrateful America besmirched his memory was the canard that he died from overeating. Mr. Bryan...
...taking this opportunity to inform you of a mistake that was made in your write-up of the British Amateur Golf Tournament at Frestwick [TIME, June...
...applicant turned away for inadequate scholarship. Its students are campus leaders-Princetonian editors, football men, class presidents. They spend their summers living abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside come topnotch authorities to inform and argue. Then students pretend they are a Senate committee, a New York City charter commission, a League of Nations assembly, proceed to thrash out the question at hand with all due form & ceremony. At this year's final conference last month the School was the U. S. House...
...Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations, now alone adheres. Their sole mission was to inform the President in person that Leopold III now sits on the throne of Belgium...
...week I received a lovely letter from a boy in Cambridge suggesting that I buy smaller fans since they would be far less expensive and I wouldn't have to worry about misplacing them. I think it was sweet of him, don't your. The reporter hastened to inform her that the young man had doubtlessly expressed the opinion of the whole college and had showed the practical side of the education received at Harvard...