Word: inference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat. We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath day what Power it was that stationed these men at this strategic point on this occasion. . . . We can only infer that it was the same Power which guided the path of the Mayflower . . . Franklin and Washington . . . George Rogers Clark . . . Lincoln and Grant . . . Fields of France." The last half of the speech dwelt on present-day Prosperity in the South, on union in the Nation...
John Buchan according to the jacket, is the "greatest romancer since Stevenson," and is a veritable jack-of-all trades, combining the activities of "lawyer, soldier, business man, novelist, historian, essayist, poet, and member of the parliament." At any rate, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Buchan is an intelligent man of considerable good taste, shrewdness, and literary ability. In "The Half-Hearted", there is nothing to make the reader believe the contrary...
...soul. When the University Gazette was started we had a solemn understanding that it was to contain no mistakes, whether of fact or of typography: the Gazette could do no wrong. No one could have come nearer to this impossible ideal than Miss Mullen, and I am glad to infer from your comments that the tradition of infallibility was maintained...
...domination having it made into law. Furthermore, the woman politician has just begun her "epidemic of lawmaking" according to Count Keyserling. He paints a gloomy picture of a country reduced to the bondage of minor social laws about which the masculine politician has little or nothing to say. To infer the worse it seems altogether too probable that the inversion of the sexes will place the supposedly stronger ones in the nursery and the kitchen in a few more years...