Word: infers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...footnote which describes the article's meaning is entirely misleading. One is led to infer from it that our famed Wilshire Boulevard was named after Magnetic-beltman Wilshire in honor to him for his wonderful invention. It was not. Wilshire Boulevard was named after Subdivider Wilshire, the same person, to be sure, but at a date about 25 years previous to his fame as a magnetic-belt tycoon...
...twice as wide and six or eight times as heavy as the Mount Wilson glass mirror (world's largest) of the Carnegie Institution. It will reflect four times as much light and probe eight times as far into space. Consequently, with it astronomers will be able to infer many new things about the structure of the universe, the composition of stars, whether or not life exists on Mars...
...have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin ice-sheet...