Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition of the German names is significant in two ways. In the first place, it is a gesture of respect and homage to the Harvard men who sacrificed their lives for their country on the side of the Central Powers. In the second place, it is an implicit protest against the distinction between the honor due to those who fought for the Central Powers and to those who fought for the Allies. And that is what is most important...
Such criticism must rest upon a failure to understand Mr. Smith's peculiar position in the east and especially in Massachusetts. In the Democrats of Massachusetts, his name inspires implicit confidence and blind discipleship; where he leads they follow. Mr. Smith is conscious that any prolonged appeal for Governor Roosevelt would fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic...
...right to declare independence is implicit in "Dominion status" which the Free State...
Ever since the question of Parietal Rules in the Houses was brought up in September last, its solution has been retarded by secrecy, by ambiguous phrasing of the actual rules, and by an implicit latitude, never openly stated, granted to the House Masters in interpreting the rules. The consequences have been variation in their actual working from House to House, confusion on the part of students and in several cases habitual violation of the rules...
...finally from the religion in which she has taken refuge, is distinctly suggestive of the manner of Thomas Hardy. Dr. Cronin's literary sojourn in Wessex is perhaps the most important of the several influences to be detected in his work. It appears not only in the implicit irony of his tale, but also in the "tendency to take his vocabulary for an airing." Such redundant phrases, frequently occurring, as "protested the impossibility of such omission," and "immeasurable adulation gushed from her generous bosom" are not only bad writing: they are a kind of bad writing which went...