Word: tacitly
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...advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...
...Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles of faith, or resign his church, would convey a tacit denunciation of those tendencies he represented. That Dr. Fosdick has answered their ultimatum with resignation is not surprising...
...same time, though the party is in office it is not quite in power and it must perforce rule with the tacit consent of the two traditional parties. The fact that its leaders agree with Sidney Webb on the "inevitability of gradual-ness", that Premier MacDonald is a constitutionalist, rather than a Marxianist, make it probable that this consent will not soon be retracted. Unlike its neighbors across the Channel, England's greatest revolutions have taken place in the quiet course of constitutional development. It is a testimony to the permanence and strength of the labor movement that...
...Eaton then told the reporter of the difficulties under which primary and secondary school education is conducted. "There is a tacit understanding that nothing shall be done to hinder the absolute liberty of young peoples' morals. The same arguments are advanced for the laxity of the discipline in the schools as those propounded recently by the Turks, advocating the restoration of polygamy...
...official prudishness subsided. Now, however, the threatened calamity has been averted. Whatever may be the state of City Hall opinion in the Hub of the Universe, this way-ward spoke will continue its mad career along the primrose path, if not with the open sanction, at least with the tacit consent of its own particular Cato. The tradition of culture and individuality established half a century ago by the Brattle Street illuminati has been saved certainly for the present and possibly even for future generations. Io Saturnalia...