Word: lukewarm
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...Lukewarm Puerto Ricans...
...saint is President Roosevelt to Puerto Ricans, fun-loving or not. Although personally he is admired as a talented leader, the extension of the New Deal to the island has been delayed for so long that Puerto Ricans are lukewarm toward the Administration...
...weeks the Senate fulfilled expectations by the listlessness of its debate. Because Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee was too lukewarm to do a job that rightfully belonged to him, Majority Floor Leader Joseph T. Robinson had to take over Ad- ministration sponsorship of the World Court resolution. This proved an initial handicap because Senator Robinson, though a loud and earnest debater, is no expert on foreign affairs. Meanwhile the case against the Court was presented by Senate veterans who had learned their parts by heart in the debate of 1926. But the Administration entered the final weekend...
...Commission spent $65,000, heard 200 witnesses, filled 4,500 pages with testimony, sent Chairman Howell on a fine European junket. Last week it filed a 254-page report containing 102 suggestions which President Roosevelt sent to Congress with a short, lukewarm message. It was painfully apparent to the six Commissioners that the President was much less interested in their findings now that public feeling over the airmail contract cancellations had subsided than he was a year ago when he solemnly launched them on their labors. Noncommittal was he in his message to Congress on such Commission recommendations...
...best candidates, and the effectiveness of tutoring in History and Literature is common knowledge. English, on the other hand, is a subject which many students select for concentration merely because they have no special interest in any other field. Hence this Department is burdened with large numbers of lukewarm students whose highest scholarly aim is to get a "gentleman's C" in their courses. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that on the whole the tutorial system functions much less well in English than in History and Literature. With able students it is an afficient educational device; with...