Word: inference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second, despite the legal maxim that guilt is by no means to be inferred from appealing to the amendment, popular opinion does so infer guilt, so that the witness sustains serious damage in the community...
...said, but rather by the manner in which some people may interpret the statement in the light of current events. The privilege is controversial today when employed by witnesses who refuse to answer questions concerning membership in the Communist Party or in other political organizations. Some people may infer from their statement that Professors Chafee and Sutherland believe that no loyal American should invoke the privilege and refuse to answer, and that there is no justification for seeking to protect one's friends and family. I do not believe any such inference is proper. In a book published...
...arguments against the freshmen's request, if correctly quoted, show a failure to understand the College's responsibility for providing usable study facilities to the first year class. From Mr. Metcalf's question, "Do 1,000 freshmen want to pay $30 apiece (for the additional library time)?" we can infer that each student around here pays only for the facilities at his disposal. At that rate freshman room rent, board rates, and tuition should be lowered and those of the upperclassmen raised. By the same logic, natural science students should pay more than those who do not use any laboratories...
...Republicans, moreover, greatly exaggerate the effect of corruption on the workings of the Government. It takes a strange distortion of cause and effect to infer, with Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Nixon, that corruption has interfered with our drive toward world peace and been a root cause of the setbacks in our foreign policy...
...broadcast the problem. Individual cases rarely pass beyond the student and the landlady. The victims usually have too much pride to complain openly, and the discriminators--who happily are a minority of the rentors--don't talk about it either. The Housing Office in PBH can infer the difficulty from the fact that colored students return for help time after time, while white students rent the same rooms with no difficulty. Discrimination does exist, and it is a blot on Harvard's generally good record of race relations...