Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a tall, thin cynic in the early thirties there also, with his little blonde mustache twisted into a habitual sneer. A junior high school general science teacher, no doubt. The Vagabond mused sympathetically upon this probably frustrated soul and his inner struggles. He had never wanted to teach...
For 30 years Alice Hamilton has studied the ill effects of industrial poisons (lead in the paint trades, toluene in TNT plants, carbon monoxide in steel mills, benzol in airplane "dopes"), in 1924 published a modern classic, Industrial Poisons in the U.S. She also engaged in many a bitter fight...
In this summary an observer spoke last week only for the University of Washington, in one of a dozen pre-commencement reports by TIME correspondents on the last days of school at U.S. colleges. But all other reports tallied. From the lately isolationist University of Wisconsin and traditionally indifferent Harvard...
Japanese warships suddenly appeared in the Solomons, 400 miles east of New Guinea. Whether the Japs actually landed the small forces necessary to deal with the Solomons' indifferent natives and few, malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear...
"Gentlemen," he said quietly, "you know that for myself I am indifferent. . . . What I am thinking about is France, which has been eliminated while this great world struggle is going on. But we know that one day she will again find the road to glory."