Word: inferred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer emphatically that there wasn't one element of truth in the statements and that he knew nothing whatsoever about this matter. In spite of the fact that my brother vigorously denied any knowledge of or connection with the matter, Mr. Paisner and Mr. Kann had the temerity to infer in their article, published a week after this conversation, that Mr. Tishman was one of Coffman's "mystery backers...
Opponents of the reduction observe the painful progress which the courts, the Executive, and Negro citizens are making in obtaining proper suffrage, education, housing, and employment for Negroes. They infer that effective civil-rights legislation is not really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through as a salvation. Since the Civil War liberals have learned that opponents of civil rights would not respect even so high an authority as an amendment to the Constitution. That there exist inadequate laws which purport to effect Constitutional strictures is no argument against adequate...
...Clifford's, but ventured that Clifford in the 1870's was thinking ahead of the best minds of his day. In Einstein's time the geometry of the real world lost its reliability as a frame of reference and became properly a part of physics itself. One can infer from both Newman and Russell that this inversion, an alien notion to most nineteenth-century thinkers was already half-formed in Clifford's mind...
Most of the industries which have used the defense argument have done it without any justification at all. As an advocate of free trade, I did not intend to give the impression, nor, I believe, could one infer from my remarks, that I thought that their arguments should be taken seriously. Morton H. Halperin...
...Invoking God. It is a mistake, says Samuelsson, to infer from Protestant and Puritan support for old-style capitalism that the religion helped forge the economy, or that capitalism would have developed differently in another spiritual climate: "In all religious faiths, the servants of God have invoked Him as a guarantee of the righteousness and prosperity of their own social class, their own nation, their own race-in short, their own interests. But we cannot assert that Christianity was therefore the cause of all the oppression of one social class by another that has been committed...