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Word: informants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prefer not to answer this question. A writer has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: HEMINGWAY IN THE AFTERNOON | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed to form a new council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: End of Bogyok | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...given the choice between the gas chamber and continuing to live indefinitely in this insect-ridden place, eating two bowls of soup a day and not even having plumbing, I would choose the gas chamber." Like a Teutonic Lysistrata, she offered a general recipe for ending war: "Women should inform the men that if war comes they will refuse to conceive any more children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Women | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

YOUR RADIO COLUMN [TIME, MAY 12] STATES THAT A NEWSPAPER CARTOON STRIP CONCERNING BUDDY BEAR IS BEING DRAWN BY THE ARTISTS OF SUPERMAN. I KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY SUCH PROPOSED CARTOON FEATURE AND WOULD APPRECIATE AN EXPLANATION. PLEASE INFORM YOUR READERS SHUSTER AND I ARE NOT DRAWING BUDDY BEAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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