Word: disinterested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling accusing fingers at the general, declared...
President Conant also hit at the "disinterest" of many universities towards new trends in educational methods. He advocated a recognition of the principle that providing well-trained teachers is a primary duty of a modern university...
...cannot see how the facts which follow in Gomez, Tyrant of the Andes would account for disinterest. They might account for dislike, distaste or even nausea, but scarcely for disinterest if my knowledge of psychology is worth anything...
Discourtesy, Disinterest...
...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...