Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julio Alvarez del Vayo called in French Ambassador Eirik Labonne, warned him that if the French and British continued to do nothing to stop Rightist bombing of Leftist cities Leftist Spain would start a system of reprisals. Employing the usual vague diplomatic language, canny Foreign Minister Alvarez dropped a hint that Leftist warplanes would bomb "places from which the raiders come," might concentrate on "distant objectives...
...into the student mind and its direction toward some goal, they should also consider how, under present economic conditions, he can best use his training. Although the university's purpose may not be vocational, it is essential that its teaching take interest in the student by including some hint of social obligation. A far-sighted educational policy should have an indirect means of showing him what field or profession to enter and, just as important, the right locality in which to pursue it. The graduate of 1938 must be prepared to fight for a secure place in society...
...Sharpest hint that Caldwell has no intention of mellowing into a sharecropper humorist is A Knife to Cut the Corn Bread With...
...guesser averages eight, seven or even six hits over a long run, Rhine claims that these scores are high enough to rule out chance. Some of his opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint, if two enormous stacks of ESP cards were matched against each other, one card after another, an average of six or seven hits out of 25 might come...
Host to the Congress was Justinian Cardinal Seredi, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. His opening speech to pilgrims, in Budapest's spacious Heroes Square, where a 150-foot altar had been erected, contained no hint of the fact that he is firmly anti-Nazi. Said Cardinal Seredi: "How different would be the fate of humanity, created for happiness, wherefore it is ever seeking happiness, if the solidarity of all Catholics of the world could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism...