Word: unselfishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourteenth Air Force is a handful of bold-eyed young men, haunted by the necessity of economy in the use of their too-few aircraft, inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound of unselfish human labor: patient Chinese who work miracles by numbers and sweat where machines are inadequate or just not available; windburned Americans in dusty coveralls who whoop and holler as they work, spend their off hours talking about home...
...congratulate the officers and men of the Southern Railway System on the manner in which they have assisted the officers of the battalion and of the Military Railway Service in the training of the -th. Never has there been, in my knowledge of railroad service, a more cooperative, coordinated, unselfish and thoroughly competent help given anybody...
...anti-trust suit up & down the land. The war of nerves has been relentless. Hundreds of papers, either A.P. members or sympathetic, have plumped editorially for A.P. A.P.'s General Manager Kent Cooper last fall published a book (Barriers Down) in which he pictured A.P. as a ceaseless, unselfish fighter against monopoly. A.P. has itself published two large volumes containing hundreds of pro-A.P. editorials from A.P. papers...
Morison, now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, earned his accolade because of his book, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," which was "foremost in teaching Americans patriotic and unselfish services." A professor in history at the University since 1915, he is now engaged in writing the history of the Navy. He is a Senior Fellow and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912. Morison is one of the greatest authorities on early Colonial history and on Columbus, and has led expeditions of Harvard men over the four routes of America's founder in years past...
...Sherman was the last man to leave the flight deck and shortly thereafter he came to the fantail of the ship where some of us remained. We were then evacuating the last of the wounded from the hangar deck areas. None of us will ever forget the courageous and unselfish conduct of our shipmates in caring for the wounded, both on the ship and in the water. The quotation is misleading. When the last of us left the ship, the wounded had already been evacuated...