Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many expressions of approval, this tone was typical: ". . . an appeal to the finer sensibilities of thinking people . . ."; "it inspired in me a spirit of exaltation and rededication . . ."; "as, you say, 'religion informs art and makes it greater than itself,' so may religion inform journalism. . . ." Reader Carl G. Doney, E president emeritus of Willamette University, probably summed it up best, in saying: "Most of all we are grateful to Miss Anderson for what she is and what she does...
...mildly embarrassing incident occurred at another British party for Burmans. Last week, when King George had a dinner for the delegation, he absentmindedly asked former Burman Premier U Saw if he had visited London often since the King last saw Saw in 1941. Saw said "No." He did not inform the King that he had spent the intervening years in one of His Majesty's jails in Africa...
...climax of the Council's work is its annual Institute. TIME gladly became a co-sponsor of the 1946-47 Institute because its editors believed that Clevelanders' efforts to inform themselves on world affairs paralleled TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers.* No forum can reflect every color of thought on every nation's problems and policies; nor can it give every shade of U.S. opinion. (The Cleveland Institute, for instance, omits specific treatment of such important, complex problems as Palestine and India.) The program...
...initial move for a report on student feeling on the degree distinction and the ancient language requirement came last June when Provost Buck, as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy, asked the Council and the CRIMSON to plan a campaign to inform the student body of the issues and to submit a report for consideration at a Faculty meeting "soon after Thanksgiving...
Individual rulings within the separate Houses will augment general decisions of the Housemasters. In some cases students will be required to inform tutors of intended parties...