Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New York is being delighted with a comedy given at the public's expense which eclipses anything that the professional stage has to offer. At the present the leading comedy role is filled by that inimitable veteran of the boards, James Walker, who is playing the injured and innocent mayor...
I have another very serious criticism of our so-called university schools of business. The frankest of them is the Harvard School, the faculty of which actually contains a few scholars who have a disinterested concern for the phenomena of the history of business and for the science of economics...
There is at Harvard one of the greatest of living philosophers, Professor Whitehead. It is with infinite regret that one is obliged to utter a word in criticism of him; but in what, I suspect, was an amiable moment, Professor Whiteland made an address which has been incorporated in a...
The spectacle of a disinterested English intellect resorting to hack-writing of this sort is as frequent as it is strangely inconsistent with that "mental energy and intellectual relaxation," which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter flaunts as the chief glory of the English university. British writers and lecturers have long managed to...
When H. G. Wells wrote in his "Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind" of the "devoted persons who foster an ineradicable idea of disinterested integrity" he certainly was not thinking of lawyers. It is the lofty purpose of Judge William Clark of New Jersey, as he declared on Wednesday in...