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Word: inept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNAL FIRE | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar of Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators in Distress | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Editor Armstrong the record demonstrates that the Chamberlain policy of appeasement was inept, vacillating, intriguing, unfrank. Appeaser No. 1 would first blow hot, then cold, would one day pretend that he was standing up to the Nazis, would the next concede an important point to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Retreat or Rout? | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Inept Public Relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTACKS HARVARD'S TOWN-GOWN TIE-UP | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

Belisle deplores the University's "inept public relations" coming from its Faculty's "actual or seeming contempt for the masses" and "the adolescent nihilism" of its students, declaring that it must hold itself accountable for criticism resulting from their actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTACKS HARVARD'S TOWN-GOWN TIE-UP | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

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