Word: unselfish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disposition was genial. He was emotional and sensitive, and at the same time sympathetic and unselfish. Ambitious and energetic, he demanded of himself a prodigious output. He entered into all the work of the Department with loyalty and devotion...
...desire the improvement and advancement of our nation, "the progress of the group as a group," not imposing itself or its ideas on any smaller or weaker nations, the duty of unselfish service is incumbent upon us; we cannot avoid it, try how we will. Dematerializing men and men's motives seems to me the only way of insuring for America the efficient and progressive democracy which she neds so badly. I fail to see how our present system of education or that proposed by Mr. Lazarus are going to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...placed upon the Monroe doctrine, and our only too evident fondness for buying up available islands lying off the South American coast have been construed in hostile light. It is always easy to read selfishness, greed, and underhandedness into every ordinary international act; it should take but one sublimely unselfish action to dispel such suspicions against the government of that state...
...that is true, then surely even the least of those many valiant thousands of unknown men who die and who will die in battle, fighting to obliteration for an unselfish cause, is worth more to the world than the singer who will arise at some future day to tell in undying words of this huge...
...again there will be some among those who now wear the unadorned service cap, that will be worthy of the cross of honor, and these, our young men who have striven so earnestly for success in athletics or managerships or papers, will be honored for the accomplishment of more unselfish service, and the fulfillment of deeds better done...