Word: recreant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fields of Illinois. He did not denounce the President of the U. S. himself for signing the renewal, but he did savagely attack the President's closest adviser, Donald Richberg, Director of the National Emergency Council and "Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called Director Richberg a Benedict Arnold, labeled him as deceitful, treacherous, hypocritical...
...English, the Foundation found, "students drop the study as freshmen, and literary knowledge tends to disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...