Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed Bantu Education Act, natives will get education so unequal it is almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...
...high standards implicit in Mr. Lifield's gloomy commentary would preclude every student attempt to perform the world's great music. Enthusiasm is no substitute for perfection, according to your reviewer. By simplest extension, this principle could be invoked against not only amateur orchestras, but also amateur magazines, amateur radio stations, and amateur newspapers. We don't believe in Mr. Litfield's principle. We do believe that all concerned with the Messiah presentation deserve a good deal of praise for their efforts, and more than a little for their artistic achievement. Paul E. Conden '55 Kenneth A. Jlmenez '54 Robert...
...creditor's knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...
...purpose but furthering the business; in giving money to Princeton, it was violating its contract with its stockholders and depriving them of their property rights in the assets of the company. Judge Alfred A. Stein of the superior court disagreed. Said he: just as a company has the implicit right to advertise its wares, "so in respect of good will, anything that tends to promote with the public a company's good will is a reasonable measure towards the corporate objective of earning profits...
...more frequently heard is the procession of words deserving to be named the Jericho Sermon. Some preachers . . . seem to have implicit faith that if they march around the outside of a subject seven times, making a loud noise, the walls will fall down. They rarely...