Word: inference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the duplicate books which the College is offering for sale in the basement of Widener is "School and College Finance," a well-known treatise. The successful management of the University Dining Halls last year ($40,000 profit) shows, we infer, that book-learning is not really necessary hereabouts...
...unplaced in the Houses. This situation is the outgrowth of two factors, the prohibitive higher bracket in House room rents and the admission this year of an abnormally large Freshman class. Although the men in question will remain on the waiting lists for midyear vacancies, it is reasonable to infer that the present composition of the overflow will not change materially throughout next year...
...radius of Lake Placid. The four Stevens brothers manage a Lake Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events in the national A. A. U. champion-ships-that impartial observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf...
...earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which Professor Babbitt occasionally slips we are inevitably reminded of Dr. Johnson; the similarity is greater still when one considers the dogma of the humanist, and the moral links between...
...simultaneously, and that their age is too short for any appreciable evolution having taken place. Finally, the observed recession of spiral nebulae, reflecting the phenomenon of the expanding universe, indicates a possible age of the extragalactic universe of a few thousand million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors) were born out of the original parent...