Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War that the old agreement was revived, despite France's receiving Alsace-Lorraine, and the Saar's being controlled by the League. But in the event that the vote at the plebiscite goes to Germany, which seems inevitable, will the two Great Powers be able to forget their selfish interests to the extent of keeping alive the agreement between their two mutually dependent districts...
While Harvard takes pride in supplying the Museum of Fine Arts with a capable dictator, George Harold Edgell, her selfish interests must regard his resignation as a calamity...
Current diplomats appear to have forgotten completely their duties as guardians of international security. Lacking the broad vision of Kellogg, deprived of the stimulating leadership of Briand, their eyes are blinded by selfish nationalism to the pleas of all classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat of war in the Chamber of the League, Laval's antagonizing oratory, are all evidences of the failure of current diplomats to grasp to broader demands of statesmanship. Indeed, until they do learn to view the narrow policies of egoistic nationalism in the light of world harmony, international conferences...
...criminals shall be prosecuted and how the prosecution shall be managed. He has the dangerous alternative of following up a case with vigor, or allowing it to be deferred and lost in the maze of court routine. Yet this officer remains the puppet of local politicians, subject to their selfish will, and forced by the necessities of reelection to bow to their decisions on the advisability of prosecution in certain cases...
...question that must be answered according to ethical considerations and standards. Whose rights should be given first consideration, those of humanity as a whole, or those of a selfish individual seeking private and greedy gain? Should a man be restricted from improving on life-saving inventions merely because an individual has secured a patent to assure his own gains? Scientists pool their knowledge. No discovery is made by an individual unaided by the vast background supplied by preceding men engaged in research. The one who culminates the achievement is more fortunate but not necessarily more worthy of credit or gain...