Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever means are devised for paying off the soldier's certificates, the bonus bill will still remain a purely selfish bit of class legislation. As such it is as great a vice as the inflation it eventually would cause. Today the majority of the country look to the President in his speech to the Senate not only to expose the evils of the bonus measure, but once and for all vigorously to denounce those sectionists who have been intimidated into yielding to the unjustified demands of a single group. Mr. Roosevelt will need all his powers and public support...
...meeting in Geneva is highly dubious. For the tragedy of Europe, today as in 1914, is that there is no man with a sufficiently long view to appreciate that the only path to peace lies in collective action, that in crises such as the present, nations must submerge their selfish interests and pool their resources, or else run the risk of being submerged individually by another wave of nationalism and militarism that in the past has had but one result...
When the boom was rising, a mysterious message would appear in the United States Treasury, telling the whole story. By that time it would be too late to renounce recovery, no matter how hard the administration tried. Selfish and stupid people the country over would have been fooled out of their depression...
...incurs the curse of Christ and is compelled to wander around the world until Christ returns to lift the curse. From the time of Calvary until the Spanish Inquisition the man roams from Asia Minor to Greece, Sicily, and at last Seville, having a life of licentiousness and selfish ease...
Pamphleteering, since the days of Thomas Paine, has been the means to an altruistic end. In its present undergraduate form it becomes a noisome commercial means to a selfish end. Advertisers should realize that circulation figures of publications for which there is no charge are entirely in the hands of the publishers, consequently, of no value. The large piles of unclaimed free Guides on the House periodical shelves should attest this fact. If the publishers still feel in the mood to foist their unfunny copy on the University without the revenue derived from advertising, then and only then will their...