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Word: indifferentism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through long years of experience, Harvard has learned the value of its reputation for indifference. What would scores of toastmasters, coaches, and Harvard Presidents have said without the magic words: "Harvard may be indifferent about some things, but not about this!"? Without Harvard indifference to break down, what would the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK NONCHALANCE | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Oscar Fabrès has a Gallic wit, honed to an international cutting edge by cartooning in half the countries of the world. Last month short, balding Cartoonist Fabrès came to try his metal in the U. S. Last week his first impressions of life in Manhattan appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: French Cartoonist in the U. S. | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Most outstanding thing about the band to me however is leader Donahue himself. Most of the fellows fronting bands are either indifferent, exhibitionists, or much too greasy in their manner towards dancers. Donahue is almost the only man I know in the business who looks as though he belongs in...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week that rare and awful punishment, an interdict, brooded like a judgment over a Roman Catholic parish in Cleveland. Closed was Holy Redeemer Church. Cut off from the sacraments of marriage, of Holy Communion, of penance, of ordination, were its 1,100 Italian families: no baptisms, no confirmations, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Interdict | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Of course the picture is not one-sided. Criticism of dining hall service is usually exaggerated; the conclusion that all waitresses are unaccommodating, lazy, indifferent, or simply incapable, is a generalization from isolated instances. And it doesn't follow that students would be an improvement. This much, however, can be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PIED PIPER OF QUINCY SQUARE | 1/31/1940 | See Source »

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