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Word: informants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soliloquy 0 what a rogue and peasant slave am I, which is cut in the film, is about as happily dispensed with as half the forebrain, for in it Hamlet tries more desperately than at any other time to come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor, Alan Dent, have gone out of their way to save a small jewel (The bird of dawning singeth all night long). But now & then, apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...nothing but ragged Mexican, scouts ducking over the brown hills ahead. "We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality, and in elevation of feeling," he wrote the French War Minister, "that I beg Your Excellency to be so good as to inform the Emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cinco de Mayo | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...join the thousands of others who will inform you that a microvolt is one-millionth of a volt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...writing you immediately to inform you that as of this afternoon I am giving up painting, sculpture, engraving, and poetry to devote myself exclusively to singing. Your most devoted and humble servant who shakes your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Are Apples For? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Poison. Rats never wash, says Specialist Nicholes, and seem to delight in filth. They are generally smelly, covered with running sores, fleas and lice. In a pinch they will eat their own young-or other rats caught in traps. But when there is food, a rat somehow contrives to inform his friends, and shares generously. They never lay up food for emergencies, trusting their victim, man, to do it for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Outlive the Human Race | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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