Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been a tacit assumption of German scholarship that if something can be defined, it must therefore exist. The Herr Professors of the Teutonic school have never quite seen eye to eye with Shakespear's query, "What's in a name?" The name, time and again, is everything. The category is sacred, the appelation supreme...
...effort to remove what Elections Committee Chairman Daniel A. Pollack '60 called "the glaring inadequacies" of recent elections, the Student Council last night gave tacit approval to sweeping changes in balloting procedure. Final action on the proposed reforms was postponed, however, until next week...
...include discouraging language prerequisities. While translations always fall short of readings in the original language, there is little nonpoetic literature that cannot be studied with profit in English. The fact that only one language is required where works in both, say, French and German are read, is tacit admission that neither is really necessary. It would be better merely to recommend a language and require it only of graduate students in the field, as is regularly done in Slavic courses...
Jelly & Gee Whiz. Zinssers is not the only discerning voice that has been diverted in New York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important...
...heart of the civil consent decree was tacit and sympathetic recognition by the Justice Department that dear to RCA is the development of color TV, in which the corporation has invested $130 million to date. In early negotiations RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff fought hard to keep complete patent power over his multichrome...