unselfishness
101Mary Colum — (June 13, 1884 – 1957) was an Irish literary critic and author. Mary Gunning Maguire was born in Collooney, County Sligo, daughter of Charles Maguire, Constable and Catherine Gunning who died in 1895 to be reared by her grandmother Catherine in… …
102William A. Hadley — William Allen Hadley (1860 1941) is the founder of the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois When you think of the other fellow only and not yourself, your own problem fades into insignificance; in unselfishness lies the real thrill… …
103The Starlight Express — is a children s play by Violet Pearn, [Dramatist Violet Pearn, born at Plymouth in 1890, was the author of many plays, and adapted several of Algernon Blackwood s tales.] based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon… …
104Rhodes-Stipendium — Rhodes House, Oxford. Sitz des Rhodes Trust. Das Rhodes Stipendium (englisch: Rhodes Scholarship) ist ein Stipendium für ein Studium an der Universität Oxford in Großbritannien und gilt bis heute nach verbreiteter Einschätzung als eines der… …
105Australian Aborigine — aborigine (def. 2). * * * ▪ people Introduction any of the indigenous people of Australia. Australia is the only continent where the entire indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation hunting and gathering (hunting and… …
106Moral Re-Armament — /ree ahr meuh meuhnt/ a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbr.: MRA * * * ▪… …
107self-denial — self denying, adj. self denyingly, adv. /self di nuy euhl, self /, n. 1. the sacrifice of one s own desires; unselfishness. 2. an act or instance of restraining or curbing one s desires: To reduce, one has to practice self denial at the dinner… …
108small — smallness, n. /smawl/, adj., smaller, smallest, adv., smaller, smallest, n. adj. 1. of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box. 2. slender, thin, or narrow: a small waist. 3. not large as compared with… …
109unselfish — unselfishly, adv. unselfishness, n. /un sel fish/, adj. not selfish; disinterested; generous; altruistic. [1690 1700; UN 1 + SELFISH] * * * …
110Lesseps, Ferdinand, vicomte de — ▪ French diplomat in full Ferdinand marie, Vicomte De Lesseps born Nov. 19, 1805, Versailles, France died Dec. 7, 1894, La Chenaie, near Guilly French diplomat famous for building the Suez Canal across the Isthmus of Suez (1859–69) in Egypt.… …
