Word: selflessly
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...feel that Jesus would approve more wholeheartedly the selfless service to humanity of such a man as Dr. Albert Schweitzer . . . than He would Billy's personable brand of high-powered evangelism...
...beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital establishment at Lambaréné, the jungle town that is his home. But, said selfless Albert Schweitzer, more money is still needed. That was hint enough for Oslo's newspapers. In three days of appeals, they raised nearly $35,000 from Norwegian donors...
They were "awakened" by the Spaniards, who brought with them both Christianity and visions of wealth. What the incredibly brave and selfless friars brought in the way of spiritual enlightenment was sometimes more than offset by the greed and rapacity of the Spanish governors. For 200 years the Spanish slaughtered and the Indians massacred, but by 1700 the Pueblo Indians were finished as warriors. The Rio Grande enjoyed few stretches of real peace. What with the Indians, the U.S.-Mexican war and the raids of Pancho Villa, Horgan's pages are seldom free from violence...
...Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million. In many companies employee suggestions have won equal rank with research. Says a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive: "Our experience has been that we get a higher return...
French Flight Nurse Genèvive de Galard-Terraube, 29, rejecting the label of "angel" despite her 56 days of selfless ministration to the sick and wounded in Dienbienphu, arrived to visit the U.S. at the invitation of the U.S. Congress.* In Manhattan, Nurse Geneviève was treated to a parade up lower Broadway. Next day she hopped down to Washington and was soon sitting in the front row of the House of Representatives' diplomatic gallery. Gleefully getting around an inflexible House rule that no gallery visitor may be introduced or even pointed out, Minnesota's Republican...