Word: inference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great a step from the country school to Harvard University to infer any such purpose as proselyting into the work. A. D. PHILLIPS JR. '96, Chairman Deputations...
...whole would clearly indicate their reaction against a Republican administration headed largely by politicians from one locality,--New England. And although Mr. Underwood would not say that Mr. Coolidge's presidential chances were any poorer because he was a Republican and from Massachusetts, he did not hesitate to infer that his own chances were considerably improved because he was a Democrat and from Alabama...
...Certainly she has made living conditions in the occupied regions extraordinarily difficult; and since her reparations bill must appear to the world so high as to be beyond hope of collection in full or even to any great extent, while her desire for security is well-known, one may infer that she would prize a buffer state...
...reasons for Mr. McKenna's refusal were not published. As he is a Liberal it is not difficult to infer that office in a Conservative Government would be trying to say the least; but there are doubtless other reasons...
Unfortunately, a certain group of undergraduates make a fetish of "recognition". They worship the varsity letter, the "cum laude", the Phi Beta Kappa key, not for the worthy efforts these symbols represent, but for the fancied prestige they infer. Failing to see that all glory depends on whole-hearted devotion to work, they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious...