Word: informed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be no speeches or tryouts of any sort tonight, the Debating Council announced. Rather it is planned to make a list of all men who intend to compete so as to keep in touch with them during the summer and inform them of the subject that is picked. These competitors will be required to return to college a week or two earlier next fall, so as to afford time for ample preparation...
...element entered into what at first appeared to be an entirely impersonal matter, and now we know what to expect when certain classmates begin to talk. So do the professors, and many are the satirical and harsh comments that fall from their contemptuous lips. They lose no opportunity to inform us that only 250 of us will be allowed to return next September...
Daniel pleaded with her to marry him "natheless." She bade him "adone." It seemed beside the point, she indicated, for her to marry anyone but the child's father. Although Daniel was too ashamed and she too proud to inform Ernley of her plight, the fellow learned it from her parents; married her like a gentleman...
...Earl and his party had proceeded from Jerusalem to Nazareth and Haifa in a sort of triumphal tour. At all points, he was met by enthusiastic Jewish colonists; Arabs appeared to inform him that they lived peacefully with their Jewish neighbors...
...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...