Word: inferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, we must deny the word "renascence." Students here have been talking about religion for a good many years, and so to infer that there has been a lapse in theological inquiry is not really accurate. If the word is to imply a renascence of the religion of the Puritan fathers of this college, it is even more inept. For the decisions that are coming out of undergraduate speculation about religion do not represent a return to the faith in which they or their forefathers were raised, but rather a realization that some answer must be made to the problems...
First, it is possible to infer from the story that the new plans for the Charity Drive originated in the Dean's Office. Actually, the suggestion of a new generally representative advisory committee for the Charity Drive was developed by the Student Council and its drive chairmen. Initiative for planning and conducting this important college-wide activity remains, as it should, in student hands...
...selection printed in the Advocate has the virtue of containing ideas, both explicit, as the narrator is intelligent and articulate, and, we may infer, implicit, as Robinson can control the relationship between the reader and the narrator. Unfortunately, a defect of the "excerpt from a novel" as a literary form is here evident; the figure of the narrator can only begin to emerge. The reader finishes wanting to see more and unable to find it in print...
...sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home shall be upheld. No film shall infer that casual or promiscuous sex relationships are the accepted or common thing...
...System as Servant. Because the actual trick-taking value of a hand depends on how the other cards lie, the bridge player must strive to 1) infer the contents of the unseen hands, and 2) convey the picture of his own hand to his partner. In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool-but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made...