Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of this work was paramount. Only one other Briton eclipsed her achievements- Colonel Thomas Lawrence. They worked by similar means, both possessing an uncanny power of winning the confidence and loyalty of Arabians. The cash value of their services was set at $750,000 by the Turkish Empire which publicly offered that sum for their heads...
...flies in Egypt and Persia through the lack of necessary legislation. In other countries girls are denied equal opportunities for education. Again, in many countries women are having a terrific fight for the vote. Yet the Woman's Party would make the issue of equal industrial rights of paramount importance under such conditions. It is ridiculous...
Responsibility. As the tenth day of the general strike dawned, the following outstanding Britons seemed weighted with paramount responsibility...
...Frank Chase, secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, in the May number of the Harvard Advocate, summarizes the aims and spirit of what he calls "The New Puritanism". After an impassioned eulogy of Old Puritanism and its fruits, the article exhorts us to consider the paramount importance of reviving Social, Civic and Individual Righteousness, spelled with capital first letters, quite as if these virtues had long since ceased...
...That, in view of the primary and paramount financial requirements of the respective universities for general educational endowment, increased annual revenue for athletic purposes should be secured through sources of direct athletic revenue, and that accordingly the price of football tickets shall be advanced as mutually agreed. There will be, however, specific provision for the University community (faculty, student, and administrative bodies) through season and individual game tickets at substantially reduced prices...