Word: disinteresting
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...seeming disinterest of the Sophomore and Junior Classes in connection with class elections, the Student Council decided last night to abolish them, unless too great a protest is received from the student body. The Council has always paid for these elections, and feels that since the duties of the officers are entirely honorary, and since less than one third of the classes respond to the voting, the money spent for printing and mailing the ballots might be used to better advantage...
...widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
...machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity in the Capital" brought Boss Calles back temporarily as Minister of War. Of the four, whose "loyalty, disinterest and patriotism" Boss Calles praised, three have not been returned to cabinet rank, including Cardenas' good friend & fellow-Tarascan Joachim Amaro, "Father of the Mexican Army," unofficially suspected of plotting the 1931 untranquillity. When Abelardo Rodriguez was moved up from Minister of War to succeed Ortiz Rubio...
...order to expedite the process of entertainment a Freshmen committee has been formed to take care of the various problems which may arise, and to devise various forms of recreation for the class. There has been no such class committee since 1927 when it was disbanded because of disinterest and a lack of any constructive measures which might be acted upon...
...motive behind my acceptance of the office of Minister of War and the act of loyalty, disinterest and patriotism on the part of General Amaro is to facilitate the path of the Government of the Republic in solving a political crisis...