Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vocational purpose has a legitimate place in every plan for a college education. It need not be a selfish purpose because the world needs trained men in many fields. To train oneself for some of these fields is less selfish than to seek an education without regard to any useful work. To seek an education with a fairly definite idea as to what the world needs, even though the world is willing to pay well for it, harmonizes perfectly with a social purpose. The fact that you will be well paid for your work need not deter you, provided...
...taunt can be flung at Percy Haughton's kind of football. His advent means that a number of Columbia's young men are going to submit to iron discipline, to a harsh cenobitic rule, for the upbuilding of the corporate over-soul. That is a fine thing in this selfish age. New York Times...
Though the population and natural resources are far greater than those of Canada, the amount of invested capital and thus material prosperity is infinitely less. This is due partly to the selfish "Islands for the Islanders" policy of restricting foreign investment, but mostly due to the inability of its banks to float needed loans. United States is providing the Filipinos with enough education to better their condition, but since the banks cannot provide the money, no progress is being made. If the Islands has an Aladdin's lamp to summon a Rugger, Rothschild, or Morgan, their problem would be straightway...
...strikes are a means to a good end--the betterment of the living conditions of the workingman--they fill, although crudely, a certain need, and are therefore in a measure instruments of good. That they are often justified is undeniable; that they sometimes serve selfish and corrupt ends is equally true...
There is evidently something wrong with the whole organization of the world's industry, and no patchwork methods are going to set it right. It is for a new system, a new universal institution that will do away with all the old cross purposes and selfish barriers in industrialism that the League for Industrial Democracy is working...