Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indeed, so far as I know, Benjamin DeCasseres is the only writer, aside from Mr. [Tiffany] Thayer, who has ever taken Fort seriously as a scientist. It is not likely that such persons as the late Justice Holmes, Lincoln Steffens and myself would entertain any such views as those implicit in Mr. Fort's writings...
...Implicit in the official argument is the librarian's conviction that when the public handles the books they are mislaid and inefficiency results. This hostile attitude toward the student who has not mastered the intricacies of the Dewey system is carried to unreasonable extremes. The librarian's passion for order has helped make Widener an uncongenial colossus devoid of all human warmth...
...with Harvard and a few other large universities free from Mr. Tunis' criticism, the general picture does not become brighter. For the distinction which seems implicit in Mr. Tunis' argument is the difference between a college and a university. A university, engaged in graduate teaching and in research, as well as in undergraduate instruction, is more likely to attract the portion of the population genuinely interested in education. The small college, without the added attractions is likely to have to take what is left. It does not follow that the calibre of undergraduate teaching must necessarily be worse...
...problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...
...hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment could be nursed into an epic; to able Director John Ford (The Informer), responsibility for the picture's pace, its sustained adventurous mood, its accumulation of memorable physical details; to Actors C. Aubrey Smith and Victor McLaglen the complete realization of two roles as great...