Word: chiefest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of scholarship and student finance. His central suggestion, that the various agencies for distributing money to the undergraduates should be united under one permanent official, is surely one to which no large objection can be raised, and for which many important arguments can be advanced. The chiefest of them has been adduced by Mr. Hindmarsh; a single office would be able to treat the problem of each individual more completely, to tell him more definitely than any office can tell him now what his prospects for assistance...
...very difficult to see that this would mean anything except Fascism. Regimentation under the control of capital is the chiefest aim of Fascism, and what can emerge as a popular movement in more disorganized nations appears in the United States as a pleasant and parliamentary suggestion. George Soule pointed out last week in the New Republic that this stream must be crossed by the administration; capital can be bearded when it is prosperous, but the gentle reformer must watch for his skin if its real security is threatened...
...Yazoos and Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian...
...come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value to us and yet on p. 27 of TIME Feb. 15, Dr. Butler's annual Southern visit is accorded to Brunswick, Ga., instead of Augusta. Dr. Butler never was at Brunswick. He doesn't know that there is any such place...
There was no "unhappy position of NYRBA in South America." South American good-will has been one of NYRBA's chiefest supports...