Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, the rise of Halsey. Stuart & Co. from fourth. Bankers Co. of New York, heading syndicates totalling less than $34,000,000, nevertheless participated in $537,700.000 total business. While the smaller volume of financing was reflected throughout the list, the lowered figures of three famed houses were tacit testimony to the sorry times. Otis & Co., from which 14 partners have resigned this year, headed syndicates totalling $3.500.000 against $93,975.000 in the same period last year. Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s figures were $8.000,000 against 1930-8 $12,500,000, 1929's $95,851,000. Banc...
Simply because published salary-surveys are an acknowledgment of the existence of this unfortunate undergraduate attitude, they are at the same times an encouragement of it--a sort of tacit official approval. We are tempted to suggest that the results of such investigations be confined to the ledgers of statisticians, and that, as a substitute, the Federal Office of Education make a yearly survey among college men to determine the answer to the question: "What percentage of graduates find it necessary to get soused after business hours in order to keep their minds off themselves until the next...
...agreement is quite all right but wish to avoid the battle royal which would ensue if the U. S. Senate were asked to approve it? Would Senator Morrow, in short, tell the British to tell the French and Italians that the U. S. would like to give merely its tacit consent to the formula under which they propose to adhere to the London Naval Treaty...
...only a Frenchman but a gallant Frenchman, Author de Miomandre's criticism of Venus is usually tacit, always tempered with admiration. Though he writes as an historian, conscious of documents, it is his firm though undocumented belief that the goddess has returned to Mt. Olympus, where she dwells as beautiful, as potent, as ever...
...gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...