Search Details

Word: informants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Season. In Albuquerque, Sheriff's Deputy Lester Hay was obliged to inform two youths that the coal stove they had stolen against the fuel shortage was really the ice container off a water cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...withdrew his objections--for the time being. According to the Cambridge fire chief, the inspector announced that if any more plays were going to be put on in Sanders, somebody would have to build a proscenium arch with an asbestos curtain. The president of HTW suggested that the inspector inform the University on this point, but as yet no one has heard anything about it. But the "no scenery" dictum still stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

...union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night, and we are quite agreeable to working odd hours. Our union intends to inform the Labor Ministry that we wish to maintain our union just for economic purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Oblation or Inflation | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...addition to this figure, the jayvee spokesman claimed the support of two-thirds of the varsity grid squad, whose opinion is presumably worth a good deal. Although Powell did not reveal their names, he added that they had authorized him to inform Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 that they were in favor of placing Boston in command of the 1948 team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Jayvees Split on 'Boston For Coach' Drive | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

Lana Turner and Tyrone Power, allegedly the hottest gossip-column romance since Garbo and Stokowski, allowed "a studio spokesman" to inform the world that the thing had dropped dead. Three days later lovelorn Lana arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood with her four-year-old daughter Cheryl (who had a cold), and a new-found friend, grown-up John Alden Talbot (who looked fit as a fiddle). Hollywood Columnist Louella Parsons explained all about it: "Lana said . . . 'The separation . . . has changed Ty. . . . He came back* determined to spend his time fighting Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next