Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives the sensations and reaches the conclusions of life is man; he still remains, among all his creatures the paramount figure...
...Real Reasons. Only the most unimaginative correspondents failed to turn up at least a baker's dozen of "paramount considerations" which necessitated the postponement. Some of the most significant...
...head coach of the Harvard football team should be a Harvard man, since a graduate of Harvard is more likely to be in sympathy with the ideals for which Harvard stands than an outsider. Because of his great influence upon the players, his character and personality should be paramount considerations. Since the object of coaching is to teach, men to play the game. and, since in every sport to play well is one of the greatest incentives to playing at all, the Harvard football coach should be the very best available...
...Pony Express. Paramount has been advertising for some time this picture as a "western epic" and the sequel to The Covered Wagon. James Cruze who directed that unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest...
...other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other high officers of the Biological Survey on game-shooting privileges as completely paramount. I believe that that association's influence is to blame for the fact that now the Biological Survey and the Secretary of Agriculture have flatly refused all appeals to reduce the bag limits and open seasons on migratory game, and have passed the buck to the states...