Word: informers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Digest began life by compiling its entire contents from other periodicals and nurturing an evangelical ambition "to inform, inspire and entertain." For its first eight years, the magazine subsisted on previously printed wares, simplified and condensed to accommodate Wallace's notion of suitable brevity or a reader's attention span. Even today, the Digest frequently shears the lead paragraph from reprinted articles, on the assumption that the author is only clearing his throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue...
...traditional at Harvard exams that students suffering the tortures of the damned be permitted an occasional respite to visit the lavatory or partake in the pleasures of a cigarette. Apparently, however, the Registrar's Office has neglected to inform this year's proctors of these basic human rights...
...first Rockefeller Foundation Report noted a variety of evils among voluntary health agencies, such as lack of coordination between agencies which resulted in a confusing duplication of appeals and failure of agencies to inform contributors how their money was spent. The findings of the second report, written by Dr. Hamlin for the Rockefeller Foundation ad hoc committee on voluntary health and welfare agencies are even more disturbing. He reported that "no strong, central agency" had been created, too much money was going into overhead (as much as 36.2 cents being spent in raising each dollar), the public continued...
...Fred Schwarz, 48, a genial, Australian-born physician and onetime Baptist lay preacher. Schwarz began his crusade in 1953, has become one of the principal figures of the rightist revival. Better read and less inflammatory than most of his counterparts, he avows it his purpose "fundamentally to inform, to teach, to educate" about Communism. He has drawn crowds of up to 15,000 in cities across the U.S., persuaded 41 mayors of California towns to declare an antiCommunism week, plans to invade New York City next July in "the biggest thing they've had yet." Schwarz professes abhorrence...
...committee for the Lionel DeJersey Harvard Studentship and the Charles Henry Fiske Scholarship is anxious to inform members of the Class of 1962 about two awards, for they are usually given to seniors who are not normally the "scholarship-applying" type. The scholarships are for one year of residence at an English university, with a free reign on academic pursuits and an opportunity for several exchanges with British students and teachers...