Word: resourcelessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discouraged and begins not doing more than a third or fourth of the things which he is at liberty to do. He begins to see that his profession does not adequately test him for any definite achievement in his line. . . . I am acquainted with no more essentially sluggish, improvident, resourceless, unambitious, and time-wasting creature than the ordinary professor of forty, nor anything more empty of adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting till...
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