Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CLEAR, CONCISE AND COMPLETE COMMENTS ON CANADA'S WAR EFFORTS . . . AND THAT TODAY'S ISSUE HAS DONE MUCH TO BUCK UP THE DROOPING MORALE ON THE D.O.C. HOME FRONT. THE D.O.C. IS INDEED MIGHTY PLEASED WITH TIME AND PROUD OF TIME'S ALL-OUT AID AND UNSELFISH EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY...
...people of the nation would never have belittled or cheapened your unselfish devotion to your country in such a fashion. They have thrilled at the things you have done and are doing. They have experienced the surge of spiritual fire that must burn deep in the heart of every man who serves his country as you have served...
...their unselfish action, the Faculty is saving the University an estimated $60,000. This money will be applied to the technical equipment needed in specialiezd courses. It will also steady greatly the tottering University budget. The men who are going to teach this summer will have to meet still further increases in individual teaching burdens. Survey courses like Gov I and History I, in fact, are facing the immediate future not knowing where their next section man is coming from nor when he will go away. But the Faculty realizes that the University can render an immeasurable service in this...
Fisher Ames was the Herbert Hoover of his day-except in foreign policy. A great New England Federalist, in a time when the Federalists were down & out, "a man of singularly pure and unselfish character," Fisher Ames was one of those stiff U.S. statesmen, like Hoover, who are respected without being popular, who are admired-by people who vote for somebody else; and who are considered wise-by people who wish they had time to discuss his ideas...
Sorokin's idea was that applicants for admission to Harvard should be surrounded by beautiful, scantily clad females reclining on sofas, and, if they were able to resist the temptation, they would be granted admission. Mr. Rose, in telling of the girl's unselfish offer, said, "The girls are quite willing to sacrifice themselves for the worthy cause of science...