Word: informants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger mistake of the Changsha officials was their failure to inform themselves that the Japanese were still 58 miles away from the city. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meted out punishment for both errors. He reputedly ordered Changsha's garrison commander, chief of police and commander of the provincial troops executed for their "premature zeal...
...inform Her Majesty that she has become the senior partner of the firm of Victoria and De Lesseps." These words, spoken by Disracli (Miles Mander) as he becomes Prime Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience...
...primitive draws the image of a gazelle to amuse himself, it is a picture; but if a hunter makes such a picture to inform the next comer that the hunting is good, it is a message. Cuneiform writing ("cuneiform" means wedge-shaped) is a direct descendant of picture-writing, in which the symbols are so formalized and simplified that they are unrecognizable as representations of real objects. When symbols were assigned for phonetic syllables, the representation of abstract ideas became possible. The Babylonians realized that they could develop an al-phabet-that is, a set of symbols each of which...
...between the covers of LIFE. On eleven double-page spreads appeared eight plans for houses, four by "modern"' architects arrayed against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...
...prevent violence throughout the struggle last year and at the same time maintained the complete impartiality of the University were Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, and John W. Lowes '19, Financial vice-President. Last year they went so far as to have posters raised in prominent positions to inform employees of the employer's neutrality...