Word: informed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay." He dislikes the notion that he issues categorical decisions, or that he functions as an official transatlantic ship despatcher. All that he will undertake is to inform a waiting flyer when he may expect "reasonably favorable conditions" on his projected course. And that alone means long, laborious work for Dr. Kimball in the Weather Bureau offices atop the Whitehall Building at the lower tip of Manhattan Island. It means working all night, making a weather map from radioed...
...payments she will pay only $144,000,000, which is secured by the German national railroads' income, and no more. England, and particularly France, would begin to rattle their swords, but I doubt whether they would again occupy German territory. After a fortnight's rattling they would inform America they were unable to pay what they...
...rule advisable, before one talks, to know what one is talking about. It is quite evident from the tone of the letter that the writer failed to inform himself concerning the present situation. The glaring tales unfolded in the various dailies would lead us to believe that there was a first class riot, that the property of the Elevated Company was devastated beyond repair, and that there was difficulty in arresting the supposedly guilty parties. Any eye witness will testify to the contrary--indeed, completely to the contrary. That the obnoxious rioting consisted in the untwisting of a few bulbs...
...your Jan. 26 issue appeared a photograph of "Mrs. Hoover" and "Secretary Hoover' with a news item to the effect that these characterizations would appear in our forthcoming picture Up for Murder (title may be changed). I wish to inform you that this "flash" never got beyond the projection-room stage at which time it was ordered destroyed by our executives who did not consider it in keeping with the policy of this corporation to use it as a bit of atmosphere. The news item also states that the story was , apparently laid in Washington during the Harding...
Sirs: Would you print in your Letters column a summary of the speed boat records made by Gar Wood the late Sir Henry Segrave. I should like to know the speed made by the late Sir Henry on the day of his death. Please inform me also as to the greatest speed made in a sea-flea and who by. This is to settle an argument and we have agreed that TIME'S report decides the winner. H. C. McGuire Cobourg...