Word: implicitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Implicit in his statement (and in the off-the-record conversations of aircraft manufacturers) was the considered expectation that by spring the planes would be pouring off U. S. production lines. But many an anxious U. S. citizen looked at performance instead of expectation, and what he saw was not good. In December the aircraft engine industry turned out 2,400 military engines, but it was still on the edge of quantity production of the high-output (2,000 h.p. and up) engines needed for such Air Corps bombers as Martin's B26. And plane production for the month...
...seems to me that implicit still in everything we say or do as a people is a fatuous refrain: "We are the greatest democracy on earth...
...best-which is implicit rather than fully achieved in his latest book-his poetry has the shapeliness and poise of a massive bell, from which a slowly swinging clapper booms out a message that all free men will understand...
...British and U. S. press, the American Legion in the U. S., resented his comparison of U. S. and Nazi soldiers. Britons steamed at his remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy in the strongest terms that diplomatic...
Another inescapable fact is that if Britain ceases to be mistress of the seas, the new mistress is almost certain to be either 1) Germany and her allies or 2) the U. S. and its allies (if any). Recognition of this fact is implicit in the two-ocean navy program which the U. S. already has afoot...