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Word: disinterestedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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An appeal to the better instincts of the German people is, in French ideology, very like casting pearls before swine. The amenities of international relations demand the attempt, but the sons of Marianne place no faith in its success. Rhetoric may be useful, but only when supported by bayonets. Adroitly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/4/1934 | See Source »

It is wise to remember that the Hanfstaengl case and this one which has developed from it should be considered as individual cases. If Mr. Mellon or any person disinterested in the Hitler government were to present a student with a similar chance--but without the present implication--the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFLICTS OF PRINCIPLES | 11/23/1934 | See Source »

¶ In 1800 Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At the Universities | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Of the Foreign Policy Association many students have probably never heard. Those who have may think of it--and not too unjustly--as, locally at least, a collection of nice old gentlemen and dowagers, sentimentally busied with international relations who meet on Saturday afternoons in that most dowager of hotels...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Foreign Policy Association Explains Its Raisons d'Etre in First Article | 10/18/1934 | See Source »

Sixth Floor. Full of pride over the success of the Conference, and full of congratulations for "Missy" Meloney, to whom she gave all credit, Helen Rogers Reid lost no time getting back to the Herald Tribune Building a block from Times Square. Her office is in a corner of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Herald Tribune's Lady | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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