Word: inference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compared him, skeptically, with Leonardo da Vinci. For Johnson is also first among the authors and co-authors of textbooks purchased by Chicago schools. As the author of 20 titles used in Chicago classrooms, he ranges easily over electricity, ceramics, metalworking, reading and Chicago history. His opponents infer that his chief contribution to some of the texts was his name...
...danger of subsidies is that we shall infer from the fact that the cost of living is held down during the war that we are successfully avoiding inflation...
...reply to yesterday's "Music Box.": "Swing" never did mean to say that all classical-music lovers disdain all forms of popular music, though "Swing" did try to infer that their training frequently inhibits their ability to understand jazz. In spite of Mr. Flint's gratifying knowledge of jazz, he is by far the exception, not the rule...
...Japs well away from the transports, finally forced the whole Jap fleet to retreat. Both sides took their losses; the Navy's cryptic account indicated only that they were heavy, that the Japanese had not dared another test of surface strength. The Navy calmly left others to infer that the Jap losses may well cripple them throughout the Pacific war area, that the U.S. losses may exceed those previously listed (one cruiser sunk, two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged...
...trust that TIME [March 3] does not intend to infer that the more than 24,000 Chamorros of Guam are not capable of intelligent and sustained labor...