Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exaggerated seriousness. The determination to win at all costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
...Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha, Neb., he delivered a speech which only said one thing to his listeners: get busy and stump for the ticket. Coming from the Postmaster General to his postmasters it contained the implicit footnote: orders is orders...
...does not sound very promising, perhaps. But Authoress Cather is better than her implicit word: if she does not hold you breathless, she never lets you nod. And when you have finished her unspectacular narrative you may be somewhat surprised to realize that you have been living human history. Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...
...Budget, President Hoover's statement which implied that Congress was in the habit of overstepping his budget figures stirred critical resentment at the Capitol. Good Hoover Republican though he is, Washington's Senator Jones. Appropriations Committee chairman, rushed into print with a statement defending Congress against the implicit charge of extravagance. He pointed out that it had reduced the President's own estimates of expenditures this year by $27,000,000, and last year by $23,000,000. Other Senators accused the President of being "unfamiliar with the facts" and trying to build up public sentiment against...