Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...midst of so many opinions upon the question of a change in the present club system, it is of pre-eminent and vital importance that the one paramount defect in that system be kept in mind, namely, the elective feature which makes possible and necessary the maintenance of 17 clubs with separate identities. It is this method of election which must bear the brunt of the attack...
Anyone who is familiar with the task of editing a college year book knows only too well the paramount difficulty of getting men to have their pictures taken and to send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help...
...paramount duty of ours to impress upon them an understanding of America. Ohio State Lantern...
...follows: "The phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes supporters have to do with every subject on earth except the sole visible and apparently eternal issue of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country." I beg to state that the tariff is not the paramount issue of this campaign and indeed the tariff policies of both parties are every day becoming more and more alike, owing chiefly to conditions anticipated after the war. Even the Democrats have come to recognize the need for a certain amount of protection under present conditions...
...have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...