Word: inference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work proves Sheeler an exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly but through an instrument. . . . This happens to sum up the relationship of the classic artist to his subject...
There was plenty of beefing from the Bruins after Umpire Connors ruled the final out at first base with the bases leaded in the fourth. The Brown centerfielder went so far as to infer that Connors ancestors had not come ever it the Mayflower. The irate lad drew exiling for his efforts...
...York Times and Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune for their blunt dismissal of Save Me the Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote Columnist Roosevelt, "seemed to infer that because this play does not teach a great lesson or pick any particular people to pieces, it is worthless as a play...
These reports present a startlingly clear picture of the concentration of the publishing business in a few firms. From them we may hardly infer that there are anything like 855 companies to be regarded as employment possibilities. It is also evident that any publishers producing less than five books a year must have a very small establishment with an editorial personnel of not more than two or three people at most. And more than 600 out of 855 publishing houses are in this category...
...Soviet Government did not immediately explode with angry protests and denials of such grave charges by a French general on active duty. Equally significant was the fact that such charges had been made against a country which is nominally France's military ally. Frenchmen were left to infer 1) that the charges were true, 2) that the French General Staff considered France's military alliance with Russia about washed...