Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that no judgment had been reached on the fundamental question--the right of Congress to delegate its legislative powers. The basis of the verdict was merely the technical flaw of failing to define adequately the extent of the powers conferred upon the President. Mr. Hughes even made the tacit admission that control of oil production is in itself valuable and even made the tacit admission that control of oil production is in itself valuable and even necessary. Thus it is evident that the long- a waited test case has not yet arisen...
...presume, as Mr. Wade implies, to the arrogant undertaking of teaching Harvard men to think." I am glad, but then I cannot understand why the Critic editorial should contain these words: "To teach how to think and what to think about. . .' Idealistically the existence of the Critic is a tacit plea for this...
...handle the financial end some one was kept in Cambridge who was in definite charge of such matters, and who was to devote his time solely to that side of the operation of Harvard. Coincident with this appointment came the vacancy in the position of Comptroller with the tacit understanding that that post was never again to be filled. This left the University with no one in definite charge of the mechanical administration...
...compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent, the Conservative Party, put up no candidate and boycotted the polls, de claring: "No matter how the people vote, the Government will elect Lopez." After the balloting, President-Elect Lopez obtained what looked to Colombians like the tacit endorsement of President Roosevelt by paying an elaborate goodwill visit to Washington (TIME, July 9). With Banker Alfonso Lopez, as he marched in to be inaugurated last week, was his father, Banker Pedro Lopez. Said the new President in his inaugural address: ''I promise active co-operation with...
...oldtime religion, even cloaked in the new creed of Communism, is not quite good enough for John Dos Passos either. But in all countries he is glad to observe the old forms breaking up. First-rate reporter, he keeps his editorial comment packed, neatly tacit, between the lines. In All Countries is a collection of quick camera shots made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale...