Word: inference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis pulls the familiar tactic of trying the prosecution. He fights not communism but rather those who do fight communism. The reason, so he ways, is to preserve "freedom of mind." Yet the most potent enemy of this freedom in all the world is communism. One would infer from Mr. Davis' diatribe that it was Senator McCarthy who had infiltrated the communist fronters into American university faculties and was protecting them from being fired...
...life," he said much later, "has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or to guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it." But he began, like any other laboratory neurology student of his day, by dissecting the spines of eels and the nerve fibers of crayfish...
...wrong to infer that because invitation and election to the Law Review are hot contemporaneous, invited students must prove their ability to be elected. According to the present President of the Review, election is but a formality in ordinary cases, automatic for anyone invited. Delving into the group's history, he has yet to find a case where any man invited has been turned down later...
...review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead some readers to infer that it was because of British insularity or snobbishness. The reason was that the Indian officer's caste might be broken if he ate with nonbelievers in his religion...
...States made a pilgrimage to Idlewild airport to welcome William N. Oatis, the A. P. correspondent who had been imprisoned by the Czech Communists. But to those who wanted Oatis to recall forced confessions and false charges, the interview was disappointing. Oatis admitted no torture and did not even infer that his arrest was unwarrented. When asked whether he was gathering information for the United States government in defiance of Czech law, he replied, "I am not going into that...