Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset." Bravo! But a little later on we read. "If the statistics are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the result would be. . . There must be an explicit promise that none of the statistics will be released for public consumption...
With such things in mind, every Harvard man will insist upon certain guarantees before answering the questions. First of all, the results must be placed in reliable and trained hands. Second, there must be an explicit promise that none of the statistics will be released for public consumption. So far, the sponsors have by no means given these guarantees. No indication has been given that the figures will be properly treated. There is a vague hint that the material may be turned over to the Harvard Psychological department; but that is all. And, what is a great deal worse from...
...exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated that a prohibition legally impossible when disguised was legally possible when it was made explicit. The practical difference between the prohibition of liquor and the prohibition of child labor is also clear. The first is a sumptuary law, with evanescent popular support, the second is an obvious social reform, which commands and should continue to command the allegiance of the American community...
After two somnolent years in Hollywood as an unobtrusive background for cinema celebrities, blond Melvyn Douglas returns to do a lifelike job as sleek, rich Sheridan Warren. He and capricious Marcia Townsend (Ruth Weston) decide, with explicit misgivings, to get married. Before long he is up to his old tricks with a nightclub charmer, ingenuously informs his wife of the fact. Marcia vindictively arranges a weekend party composed of 1) the nightclub charmer; 2) an ex-mistress of Warren's whom he has fobbed off on a fortune-hunting Briton; 3) the Briton; 4) the ex-mistress...
...mind of the great majority of those who have left endowments from their own property or who have voted special privileges and state support to the universities. The subordination of the educational function of a university to any other interest constitutes a betrayal of the implicit or explicit agreement contained in the acceptance of such aid. Such a betrayal is particularly regrettable today, when the fate of democratic institutions is in the balance, when the need for men trained not in factual minutiae but in the art of thought is greater than ever before...