Word: important
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome there had been farewells pregnant with import and seasoned with emotion. Count Volpi was closeted secretly with Benito Mussolini just before his departure. And the whole Cabinet except Mussolini, assembled at the station to see him off. There was kissing. There were cries of "Viva Volpi! Viva Italia...
...Christian, we may insert, for the sake of clarity, the words "he answers as the Bible and, especially, as Jesus has taught him" in place of "he answers as the legislator has taught him." Read again this explanation, endorsed so strongly by the CRIMSON, realizing especially the import of the clause "and then arguments many and diverse refute his words." Please note again that, these "words" which are refuted are those which "he answers as the Bible and Jesus have taught him." Thus it is that "many a man finishes college with his earlier standards completely thrown down and nothing...
...advent of roving spirits from prep school that brought upon "Rosie's" school a certain odium, in the eyes of proper parents and professors. At tutoring schools, discipline is a matter of small import. The pupils pay roundly for intensified instruction; they are bound, in common sense, to attend classes. What has conduct to do with passing examinations? And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich...
Five Oriental Tales?Comte de Gobineau?Viking Press ($2.50). Conflicts of immense critical import have been waged as to whether or not Philosopher Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, (1816-62), was or was not a touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated...
...only interest which we had in the attached clipping from Page 29, Aug. 17 issue of TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made...