Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...institutions of learning share with the American people the task of developing good citizens and it is our duty to build up these institutions till their influence becomes paramount...
...have clearly in mind what you are going to say, and then let the words and the gestures take care of themselves. Three helps to effectiveness in public speaking are wide reading and familiarity with the Bible, the judicious introduction of humor, and above all, earnestness. Earnestness is of paramount importance, because no audience will believe a man who does not believe in himself
...yard rule achieved. With its introduction there went out all the close hammering mass plays which were good for two or three yards on a down but no more. The American collegian, whether player or spectator, does not care for a game in which the element of chance is paramount. He likes to see or play a game where hard work counts, and a game where definite planning secures a well-appreciated result. For this reason he does not care for the unlimited forward pass, which can now be tried without severe penalty on first and second down. Throwing...
These ideas are so well formulated, so authoritively expressed today wherever medical teaching is of paramount interest, that the lines of such instruction may now fairly be said to be laid down for another century. The application of such ideas to the Medical School has resulted in a group of buildings unique for their purpose in that no one of them is a reflection of earlier and antiquated equipment, nor by any possibility is likely to become so in the near future. The interior arrangement of the buildings denotes the fundamental change that in the last thirty years...
...strike been persistently prosecuted, resulting in enforced idleness to thousands and in the absolute cessation of business. They have ignored the courts; have shown hostility to the government itself; they place their own interest above those of the whole country, and would make allegiance to the unions paramount to any other duty which men may owe to any organization--social, religious, political...