Word: selfishnesses
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With their usual gentlemanly instincts rising supreme over all selfish motives and over indifference, the editors of the Crimson saw fit last night to speak for all of Harvard in inviting the waterless belles to a great liquid fiesta in Cambridge, city of cleanliness. We took it on ourselves to initiate the campaign to purify President Ham's soiled lassies...
...very essential from our own selfish point of view of defense to prevent a war from starting in the South Pacific. So our foreign policy was-trying to stop a war from breaking out down there...
...this is part of a selfish, thoroughly practical form of U.S. aid-to-Britain. The Army pilots assigned to delivery duty are members of a new Army Ferry Command. Under the U.S. Army's famed Colonel Robert Olds, a big-bomber fiend who started out as a private in World War I, this organization has complete responsibility for delivering all U.S.-made British aircraft in Canada. While speeding up deliveries, the new system will also give Army pilots priceless experience in flying big bombers. Because so many U.S. bombers are going to Great Britain, the Army itself is woefully...
...trouble with us [the Church] in the past has been that we were too often allied or drawn into an alliance with the wrong side. Selfish employers of labor have flattered the Church by calling it the great conservative force, and then called upon it to act as a police force while they paid but a pittance of wage to those who work for them. I hope that day has gone by. Our place is beside the workingman...
...else to turn to. After 19 years of Fascism they are helpless, without leaders, without political faith. They have no hope even in the royal family. A prince who had been a member of the royal household told Whitaker: "The King is worse than gaga. He is a cynical, selfish, dirty old man. He cares nothing for Italy or the Italian people, but only for his own throne." Servants now repeat society gossip about the effeminacy of the Prince of Piedmont...