Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissolution period. In more recent years he has (despite his non-compromise statement) preferred peace to war, as witness his agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval to U. S. attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England...
...CRIMSON has never pretended to reflect a general undergraduate opinion, but its editors believe that they are correct in suggesting that undergraduate opinion would not choose to be interpreted by such a conformist medium as The Bulletin. The latest essay of that paper is merely another expression of that tacit assumption of approval which has been characteristic of official Harvard more than once in the past...
...should have sat idly by while this award has been four times made to the firm or person responsible for the advertisement rather than the painter of the picture utilized. Aside from the fact that the wording of the conditions seem to justify their present construction, the tacit assent of the donor to this arrangement should certainly be sufficient justification...
...course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only...
...College Market." It has helped and is helping to bring advertisers into the college publications as well as our own. . . . Nowhere in the book-will you find COLLEGE HUMOR'S advertising rates published. Therefore when it is stated by anyone, as you have in your column, that by "tacit inference an advertiser can cover substantially the same field for a less amount," it becomes apparent that someone is trying to start something. . . . Relative to the convention held at Minneapolis we have heard from seven of the members who have said they wanted our friendly relationship to continue...