Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such words are characteristic of the man. His dogs were of paramount importance to him, for with them he delighted to go on long completely solitary hunting trips. He was shocked at the squandering of money on his portrait, for he himself spends every copper sen (.005c) with the utmost circumspection-and once squelched attempts to start a popular subscription from which he would hava received...
Simultaneously the U. S. Department of Commerce announced and deplored last week that no less than seven other paramount commodities imported by the U. S. to a total volume of one billion dollars yearly are similarly being restricted in the countries of origin: coffee, potash, mercury, long staple cotton, iodine, nitrates, and sisal hemp...
...John Van Antwerp MacMurray, sensitive to this trend, was reported to be in Canton last week, despite his previous announcement that he had left China for the Philippines. Simultaneously negotiations were reported progressing to end the anti-British boycott. The emergence of Canton from self-imposed boycott isolation to paramount importance loomed...
Significance. The nice interbalance of the Northern Mediterranean powers and their incessant rivalries for possession of Southern Mediterranean lands renders the present treaty of paramount importance. France and Spain have just victoriously concluded a war which has given them control of Morocco (TIME, April 19) and when a partition of this territory is made into "colonies," "protectorates," "mandates" or "spheres of influence," Italy will assumedly claim a share of this exalted swag as the price of her acquiescence in the Franco-Spanish mutual apportionment. Thus, in respect to Morocco alone, the new treaty looms ominously for France. Dictator-Premier Primo...
...agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...