Word: unselfishness
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...unsung. Poets have avoided its stories and businessmen themselves have not wanted to hear them. The reason, Miriam Beard believes, is that heroes in other fields have served some ideal larger than themselves, even if they served it badly, have had some goal that business, except in a few unselfish spirits, has always lacked...
...Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given to his congregation. Her unselfish neighborliness was attested by many friends...
...Wells s crowning glory or besetting sin. In Star-Begotten his Utopian agents are extraterrestrial. The Martians know much more than Earth-dwellers but inhabit a nearly worn-out planet, have got to have greener pastures. Their attempt to Martianize the Earth at long distance is thus not wholly unselfish, but neither is it necessarily sinister. "This is a world where lots of us live upon terms of sentimental indulgence towards cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming reactions to them!" With a twinkle Wells implies...
...arms wildly and shout, "Here! Here! Throw it here!" Then the ball would be thrown elsewhere, and he would grow! and mutter an "Oh, damn!" Once he captured the ball out of the air and started to dribble madly towards the basket. Suddenly he bethought himself of an unselfish move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back," in an officious tone that intimated the lack of team spirit on his fellow player...
...factors that they have so well tempered seemingly contrasted ideals. One, the people were united enough and articulate enough to want to fight their way free of monopoly and capitalistic excesses. Two, they had unselfish and capable leaders to push the crusade...