Word: inference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analogy, he said, in a game of chess, according to the Foreign Affairs article, the queen's role would be one of accommodation to the pawns, from which one would erroneously infer that "all pieces in the (international) chess board are created equal...
...stable overall price structure based on supply and demand. "If prices are free to reflect changes in consumer demand, increases in some items will be offset by decreases in others. Few people seriously doubt that price stability is essential to economic growth. Yet there are those who infer that there is no connection between the two. One does not exist for long without the other. It is like asking whether the mother or the father is preferable in creating a family...
...based on a false view of the community. It is not a magazine with a crusade. And it is not any of the other Quarterlies, because they are all pseudo-academic and dull. Audience's aims never become more positive than this, and we must infer them--its aims are to be psuedo-unacademic and, above all, undull. In attempting to avoid dullness the editors of Audience have collected a strange assortment of contributors including I. A. Richards and names normally associated with the Advocate. The impression on glancing at the table of contents is one of a literary...
...couldn't see any purpose served by your article except to infer that Ed Murrow . . .was deliberately attempting to distort the situation...
...cried: "Haruspex!" Some of his associates thought of answering "Gesundheit," but others quietly went to the dictionary. Heck soon had Albany reporters flipping through Webster's, after he and Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney issued a statement that said, in part: "If, as Governor Harriman seems to infer, Republican clairvoyance was required last year to determine that he did not need the $127 million tax increase which he demanded, our forecast has proven far more accurate than the divinations of the Democrat haruspex, which also failed to foresee an admitted $80 million surplus...