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Word: inference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be gratifying to the CRIMSON that even its advertisements bestir the rest of the newspaper world. The MacArthur ad hit the Boston papers with a hearty "Harvard Vets Oppose MacArthur" headline. But the ad itself cannot be held responsible for what people infer. If, as in this case. Boston newsmen don't have time to do a little investigating, if they happen to interpret paid political ads erroneously, it is no fault of Chandler, Cook, and Knight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queries on Veteran Groups, Loyalty Checks | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

...group is defending the use of bully boy tactics because the tactics are used in a "good cause". I infer that if the same tactics were used by Smith's hoodlums to break up a Communist meeting, that would be a "bad thing." As the W's and du B point out, "the demonstration was incredibly well-organized" and "is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be louder than the man addressing it?" This makes beauty of organization and violence basic criteria in matters of discussion. It puts all opinion not backed by muscles as hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

FURTHERMORE, ONE MIGHT INFER FROM THE ARTICLE THAT MY FATHER HAD DISINHERITED MY BROTHER ROWLAND. ANY SUCH IMPLICATION IS ALSO WITHOUT BASIS OF FACT. ACTUALLY . . . MY FATHER . . . GAVE MY BROTHER ROWLAND A FINE BIG FLOUR MILL WHICH BUILT ITSELF INTO A POWERFUL BUSINESS. KNOWING YOUR DESIRE FOR ACCURACY, WHICH I CAN WELL JUDGE FROM THE EXTENTS TO WHICH RESEARCH WAS DONE BY YOUR REPORTERS BOTH IN ENGLAND AND HERE, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL CORRECT THESE UNFORTUNATE . . STATEMENTS ABOUT MY LATE BROTHER. MY FAMILY AND I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL, INDEED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Claude Soman, producer of Between Ourselves, thought he understood the Lord Chamberlain's objection. Said Soman: "Apparently they don't mind what we say about the Government so long as we don't infer [sic] the Labor Government are not educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ardly an Aitch | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Harry Morgan's adventures are also considerably altered. He smuggles Gaullists, slams pistols against Vichyites. Harry Morgan becomes, in fact, one of Humphrey Bogart's most edged portrayals of Nietzsche in dungarees, without whose hard resourcefulness one is forced to infer that the rest of the effete world would quickly fall apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 23, 1944 | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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