Word: informing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your article on Composer Luigi Dallapiccola [TIME, May 29]: How many busybodies have written to inform you that his "Kafkaesque libretto" to Il Prigioniero was, with the exception of locale, lifted in its entirety from The Torture of Hope, a short story by [19th Century French Author] Villiers de L'Isle Adams...
Perhaps it should be added that this change in University policy had been recommended last year and again this year by the Graduate Student Council. In spite of the Council's efforts to inform its constituents of its activities, many graduate students do not hear of them; it is important that graduate students should be aware of such worthwhile results of the Council's work as the admission of women to the dining hall...
...Pomerantz: Didn't Little in one capacity or another make more than $600,000 profit? Answered Little: "I know it was substantial." It was also conceded that Little's family trust made a substantial profit as exclusive export agent for Textron, and that Textron had failed to inform its stockholders of the relationship...
...more amazed than amazing [TIME, May 1]. When your valued periodical reached me, I . . . measured the Baldwin shelf. To be accurate, the two shelves sagging under the output of somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there...
...three mousy women adorns an ad saying, culturally, "To inform the population: The Moscow Clothing Trust sells all-readymade women's dresses of silk, wool and cotton." A woman's stocking ad cries up the virtues of "a new fiber called Kapron," presumably a Soviet nylon. "They mold the leg nicely, wash easily, keep shape and color...