Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania has long been experimenting with store-door service on various sections of its line. It has the tacit approval of Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Neither the President nor the I. C. C. was inclined to interfere with Mr. Atterbury's plans...
...spirit and purpose of tutorial work. The tutorial system was set up in the belief that coercion and tangible reward were unnecessary, and that there was such a thing as study for the sake of knowledge alone. Any retreat to systems of grades and examinations is a tacit admission of defeat in this high purpose. Before that admission is made, a more restricted system of tutorial work ought to be tried...
...defence. As such, and only as such, it deserves attention. It would pain most editors, it would pain Mr. Ryan, to be forced to the admission that the most valuable part of his pretentious magazine is a page of statistics Yet that is the none too tacit admission of H. A. A.'s antics last week. If it is true, then H. A. A. would be well advised to cease an annual worry, to abolish the "News," and to print, in its stead, a handier, cheaper cardboard scorecard. If it is not true, then there is small defence...
...this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this has been to make any real stability in that country impossible, for nonrecognition according to the Doctrine carries a tacit implication of disapproval. Any government that attempts to maintain itself in the shadow of American condemnation leads a precarious existence indeed, for our political influence is enormous, and the size and importance of our economic stake was revealed in the ingenuous confessions of Mr. Wiggin, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Morgan...
...rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes entrenched in hundreds of offices, whose constant meddling jeopardized the business of the State. The princes were swept out of their sinecures by the "revolt" of 1932, believed by many Siamese to have been hatched with at least the tacit consent of His Majesty who bobbed up smiling, no longer an Absolute Monarch but a Constitutional King. Before that revolt Prince Bavaradej served as Defense Minister in the Siamese Cabinet...