Word: inference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapman, who has been promoted from Consul to Second Secretary of Embassy, a diplomatic rank, since the consulate was closed six months ago. Last week Senor Antonio San Groniz, protocol officer to Rightist Generalissimo Franco, stated that upon reopening of the U. S. consulate "we would not infer that we were fully recognized by the United States Government." This caused Secretary of State Cordell Hull to change his mind about reopening the consulate. He gave Mr. Chapman a vacation, thus squelching any notion, however remote, that Washington had been about to recognize the Spanish Rightist Government...
...organization, Armour's abattoir, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Clinic may be compared. But it is illogical and stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...
...Armstrong and associates of the National Institute of Health acquired a virus with which they inoculated mice. Half of the mice also received injections of Sulfanilamide. Those did not die of the infection, but those who received none of the drug did die, causing Dr. Armstrong and associates to infer that the sulfanilamide may be the desperately sought cure for the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis and the other virus diseases...
...infer Mr. Roland Moncure [TIME, Feb. 22] is a bachelor. With TIME and LIFE arriving the same day all is quiet on the domestic front. But if they arrived on different days consider the strife between man and wife which you would thus create. So please desist from your plans for a separate distribution date for the two magazines...
Many a U. S. schoolboy knows that Kipling looked like a big-browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which...