Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program proclaimed by a group of fearless Manhattan students who intend to ship in cattleboats or steerage, sleep in their clothes on European railroads, enter Sovietland and there gather first-hand material for what all government experts, professional press men and inquisitive business representatives are believed to have left unwritten-"a lucid and penetrating report on Russia...
...TIME, May 31, p. 15, in a review of The Great God Brown, you speak of "the unwritten commandment that thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's brains...
...GREAT GOD BROWN?Eugene O'Neill's wise but wild investigation into the unwritten commandment that thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's brains...
...differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste?that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week...
Thus Germany will be able to turn back to this prudently worded application at a future date and show that, while she technically applied "without reservations," she actually did so on the basis of an unwritten understanding...