Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal cause of our political unrest during the last seventeen years has been the struggle among individuals. Our so-called leaders have fought against each other for selfish ends. Hereafter all should work together...
...resolve to endeavor to promote and cultivate friendly relations with all nations, and thus contribute to the maintenance of world peace and the advancement of the welfare of humanity. We call upon you, our beloved subjects, to be of one mind, and shunning selfish aims for public service, work with one accord, helping us to attain our aspirations...
...East was not raised and there is nothing to show that either Colonel House or the President knew anything of the understanding between the Allies and Japan regarding Shantung." The Colonel looked forward to the peace conference "as a good opportunity which may be lost because of the grasping, selfish interests ever ready to use such occasions for their own and their country's aggrandizement. . . . ." With regard to American loans to the associated powers, he wrote to the President in August, 1917, that "as long as we have money to lend, those wishing to borrow will be agreeable, but when...
...been living at his father's home, no longer loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly permits the young...
This has been true during his eight years as Governor in securing the adoption of a state park system, in the promotion of social legislation, in advancing public education, in a comprehensive grappling with grade-crossing evils, in the protection of the power resources of the state from selfish exploitation. The so-called economic questions of the future are only in part economic. Largely they involve a redistribution of responsibility and power; a more effective share by labor and agriculture in the nation's councils. The emphasis of Mr. Hoover's whole thought is the assumption that increasing industrial efficiency...