Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercenaries of modern warfare. Almost wholly devoid of humanitarian impulses, they consider their cold and analytical search for scientific knowledge more important than any current affairs of mere mortals. If a scientist is given a chance to pursue his line of research unmolested, he doesn't care about the type of government he is working under, or the condition of the people, or anything else. Science is the thing, not people...
Students at Ohio's coed Antioch College in Yellow Springs join no fraternities or sororities, never wear caps & gowns, care nothing for intercollegiate sports and, in several courses, grade themselves. Working with the faculty, they set the campus rules, vote community "taxes," and each year elect a paid student manager to run the college. Students even vote on the hiring & firing of professors. Last week, when Antioch chose a new president, an undergraduate was on the seven-man committee that did the choosing...
...Every generation has a philosophy, a theme, a major premise. When my generation sat where you . . . sit today, we, as a generation, had a rather definite philosophy. This guiding principle . . . can be summed up in this phrase: 'Take care of Number One' . . . It seemed eminently sensible . . . If everyone took care of Number One, and concentrated on that-why obviously the sum total of all the Number Ones would be prosperity and happiness all around...
...surprisingly profitable. It was, by & large, a time of easy earning and free spending. We did not know then, as we do now, that in a time of rising prices, of inflating values, you really have to be very dumb indeed to fail to make money . . . Each man took care of himself, but the sum total of all this self-reliance was that the devil not only took the hindmost but the foremost and those in between...
...Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany...