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Word: disinterestedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confronted with the information that the Fire Chief appeared completely disinterested, the Colonei calmly replied that this fellow is a newcomer, but maintained stoutly that the former Chief had made himself heard on the subject. What Mr. Apted wanted stressed above all, however, was the beautiful $60 "no-parking" sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yellow Tags, Tied to Vehicles Parked Between Eliot and Kirkland, Cause Petition of Owners | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

Georgia, picked up the moribund Enquirer-Sun in Columbus. For the next ten years he and his wife had the time of their lives, baiting Ku Klux Klansmen, lynchers, the great Evolution trial. In 1926 he got the Pulitzer Prize for "most disinterested and meritorious public service" from Northerners but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Harris Up | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

To the average layman your photograph of the gutted daredevil represents practically anything connected with aviation. If you don't believe it, show some disinterested friend of yours that picture and then offer him an airplane ride. . . . This same photograph ran in this paper because I noticed it too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Sop. "Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: 71 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

We are not sure whether the plan will be adopted or not, so, in order that the promoters will not suffer financial deprivation while fighting tooth & nail for this unselfish plan, the association will publish a newspaper devoted to associational news and will also accept with pleasure all contributions offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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