Word: disinterested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little to be desired. But after all the paragon can go far with a library alone, and is never the problem child of higher education, wherever he finds himself. The real puzzle has always been, is, and will always be the student who has the potentialities which, owing to disinterest, laziness, distraction, or a sense of proportions, are never developed...
...every pretty woman,'' Rose finds Oliver stiff, deliberate, chilling, the victim of a moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front, is killed. The book ends as Mario visits Rose to tell her of Oliver's last provisions for her, is pained at her disinterest in Oliver's wishes and Oliver's will, perplexed and uncomprehending at her nervous manner with himself...
Your criticism of the diagnosis of patients, on the other hand, is just. The fault, however, is due solely to lack of sufficient physicians, not to their incompetency nor disinterest...
...seeming disinterest of the Sophomore and Junior Classes in connection with class elections, the Student Council decided last night to abolish them, unless too great a protest is received from the student body. The Council has always paid for these elections, and feels that since the duties of the officers are entirely honorary, and since less than one third of the classes respond to the voting, the money spent for printing and mailing the ballots might be used to better advantage...
...widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...