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Word: disinterestedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

For British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: New Allies | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

From this disinterested vantage point, Mr. Wolff has surveyed the tutoring problem. Lifting from these columns the chief evils of tutoring, he has numbered them! (1) writing papers; (2) spotting examinations; (3) discovering snap courses; (4) conducting mass cram sessions. Yet Mr. Wolff is loath to discuss these ills. In...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALIAS "GUIDANCE" | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

All these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Stand | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

In the Bach process, the steel is first "pickled" (cleaned with acid), then coated with colorless chemicals (formula undisclosed) and heated. The coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, and the color becomes an integral part of the surface. The treatment increases the corrosion resistance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Colored Steel | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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