Word: selfish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...That is why for their own selfish interest, these foreigners discourage opera in English, discourage American singers, deny to young American voices a fair chance, and seek only to strengthen the strangle hold that aliena now have upon the production of opera in this country, where opera pays the largest rewards of any country in the world...
...Beck's company opened their engagement for a twelve-weeks' run at the Arlington Theatre last Monday. Every music lover in New England, every musician interested in the future of opera in this country, should, if only for selfish purposes, encourage this great undertaking which Mr. Beck has assumed...
...important consideration. Justice does not require that Germany be admitted at once to the League of Nations. In fact, it seems to require the very opposite, namely that it would be unjust to all the well-intentioned parties to the League, if a nation that had acted from consistently selfish and reactionary motives for forty years, and had constantly broken faith with its more honest neighbors, were admitted to the League, before showing even the smallest signs of a change of heart...
Patriotism, common sense, and even selfish interests, all combine to demand that every man shall do his utmost toward bringing about immediately such world-sweeping activities as to create work for every man and woman willing to work. MANUFACTUBERS RECORD...
Either through selfish carelessness or dishonesty the unusual privileges of the Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library are being abused. The unfortunate side of it is that this tendency is increasing as time goes on. The first year only one book was lost. Thus far this year more books have disappeared than during the preceding two years together. It ought to be understood by this time that "The books of the Farnsworth Room are to be used in the room only. They are not to be borrowed or taken away...