Word: inference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several notable examples of clear speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free...
...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...
...Stokowski has not, as you infer given any grounds for the suggestion that he might come back next season as chief conductor...
...infer by your public letter that I am not as strong in support of the President as you are. I am not a politician. I am not a New Dealer, anti-New Dealer or any other type of supporter of 'isms' but I am as loyal as you or any one else in the country to my father...
...cruises were not, as you infer, of no military consequence. They were of sufficient importance to warrant commissioning all overseas naval vessels of the Washington Government to make special effort to find him and destroy...