Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lovers do their loving shyly but unaffectedly, make their pretty speeches, kiss their pretty kisses, with no thought of the thousand eyes intruding upon their sentimental privacy. It never occurs to the stage criminal that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying...
...speculate on the old fellow's probable age and wonder vaguely why the University hasn't pensioned him long since. But he will not concern himself further. Most of us look with questioned approval on University business methods, but we all place implicit trust in the sense of justice of the authorities of a place like Harvard. And so the passing Harvard man will take it for granted that what is, is right, and the old man should be there working as he is day after...
...overwhelming trend of the present in favor of the "practical, professional" type of college; but the arguments in favor of a general cultural course are by no means to be ignored. "Culture" does not mean blind, narrow-minded reading of the Classics any more than it implies an implicit faith in the efficacy of the Quadrivium of the old monastery school. A cultural course means broad general training--"literature, science, history, and the knowledge of men", as opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field. The danger in a single-track education can be well summed up in the words...
...successfully managed Colonel Roosevelt's campaign for the presidency in 1904. About Mr. Lowden Roosevelt centered many important positions of the utmost trust--all of which were discharged with such flawless efficiency and integrity that he gained the confidence and admiration of the people of the entire West. This implicit faith and condence has always been warranted by his conduct and accomplishments...