Word: informants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with Fascismo's policy of utter secrecy, the final Italian debt terms were withheld by Count Volpi even from the members of his own commission up to the time of sailing. Correspondents, eager for an official announcement, were ingeniously informed that "Count Volpi owes it to the American Debt Commission, as an act of deference, to inform it of Italy's proposals by word of mouth instead of through the medium of the press...
...happy to inform a waiting world that I have been signally honored. In view of my skill as a prognosticator, I have been elected an honorary chieftain of the famous tribe of Moron Indians. My tribal name is to be Joe Foot-in-the-Mouth. Far from being puffed up by my new-won laurels, however, I am still writing for the CRIMSON under the same old name which my pen has made famous. To my friends, and I count every CRIMSON reader my friend, I am still plain Joe Forecast...
...following article was written especially for the Crimson by Dr. M. H. Bailey, Medical Advisor, in order to inform students who are not familiar with the proper procedure to take in case of illness...
...Hartford, Conn., one Wesley B. Porter, 66, for 25 years Town Auditor (Republican), ran last week for reelection. "Good old Porter," said the citizens, elected him as usual, went to his house to inform him of the event, found crêpe on the door. Auditor Porter had died the night before...
TIME is ever welcome and almost an unalloyed delight, and altogether indispensible. But it would seem if your magazine is to inform the busy man, then the use of simple current English, so far as possible, should be the constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek...