Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York American will play the story for all it is worth from every angle. Editorially committed to the adulation of the common man (the "Mr. Dubb" of its cartoons), it commercializes the fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage of the famous Stotesbury family...
...events, ushering on Class Day does not consist simply in punching the time clock at Harvard Hall, obtaining the decoration of a bronze badge, and devoting the rest of the day to finding out how many spreads it will "admit one" to. It is not a tacit invitation to "free lunch", any more than it pre-supposes personally conducted tours to Agassiz by the hour to show somebody's Aunt Agatha the glass flowers. If means two things: first, attending to visitors' wants; second, keeping from the Yard everybody who does not belong there. Experience in former years proves that...
...wants to read them in that way. But the thing which is really offered is exactly the thing for which there has been a persistent demand of late--the opportunity to read independently of courses. And the editorial suggestion that a new course be established, with its tacit assumption that the talk of professors about books is a sine quanon to the intelligent reading of the books themselves, is the strongest evidence possible that the new plan has not come too soon...
Whether the United States government would lend its recognition to such a scheme, with its tacit invitation to Australia and the other British self-government colonies to do likewise is doubtful. But the situation is strongly indicative of a growing spirit of nationalism across the border. Like the other colonies Canada is becoming more and an independent political and economic unit...