Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is often thoroughly and pointedly blacked. "Ethel Vance" knows her mountains and her Maximilianplatz. In the characters of the Countess and the General she has provided, furthermore, symbols of the old Germany accommodating itself with desperation to the new. In Dr. Ditten's stiff, selfless intellectuality the philosophy of the totalitarian State gets its most precise expression. But the conflict in the mind of this authentic, unhappy young German is the major conflict of the book...
...days later Clarence Dykstra, who is far too smart to get into a name-calling contest, replied: "A university is timeless, selfless, and committed to the commands of truth. . . . Individual lives are short. . . . No adversity kills a firmly rooted university...
...Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...
...considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth and justice which must be if existence is to justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side...
John Douglas Merrill: During many years of selfless labour a patient and devoted interpreter of this University to the alumni...