Word: inference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned letters last week on the niceties of biblical translating. One contributor, Steven T. Byington, took a stand against the practice, long common in printing the King James version, of italicizing all words not in the original texts. Byington's objection: the unpracticed reader is apt to infer emphasis where no emphasis is intended. For example, he said, take I Kings...
...paragraphs (b) and (c). Further, Church goes beyond his own assertion of the Government's right to protect itself in his implication that there is nothing intrinsically wrong in reporting to the government the opinions and activities of persons not connected with the government or the armed forces. We infer, rather, that he suggests that the University be "capably" surveyed by a detachment of FBI men rather than by a few part-time middles untrained in the techniques of wire-tapping and infiltration...