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Word: unselfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murray] is a very modest, humble and unselfish man," says W. Hardy Hendren III, chief of surgery at Harvard's Children's Hospital and Gross professor of pediatric surgery. "He is always quick to praise the work of others around him while diverting the limelight away from himself...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: Murray Receives Nobel in Medicine | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

...activist '90s," but activism, by today's standards, is synonymous with environmentalism. Care about the air. Save the trees. This was the first year when people in your dorm yelled at you for tossing a bottle in the garbage can instead of the recycling bin. We're in our unselfish phase, but it is more acceptable to worry about the increasing hole in the ozone layer than to think about, say, shrinking welfare and Medicaid benefits...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Fighting the Law School Urge | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

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