Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...
...letter, intended to inform these students of the activities of the office and to determine the number who will be interested in aid, represents the first action for the benefit of undergraduates since the office reopened last fall...
...your Feb. 4 issue you inform a surprised world that since V-E day to the end of 1945, 32,000,000 man hours and $257,000,000 in wages were lost in strikes. My slide rule tells me that the strikers must have been making $8.03 an hour at that rate. . . . H. KING HEDINGER New York City
...wish to inform you that I have never uttered either the words or the substance of this alleged quotation. I should be glad if, with your usual courtesy, you will print this denial in your next issue...
...spirit of the workshop . . . should inform every part of school. There should be a workshop for letters where poems and stories are made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but the goal of science is important. . . . Cookery, for example, is a better discipline in our schools than chemistry. The ingredients of a cake are science, art and good sense, all of which can be blended there into a very pretty simulacrum of the good life...