Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves, both in public and private life, in accordance with their moral opinions, or the opinions of those they respect, or the opinions prevalent among the people with whom they mix. If so right opinions are of supreme importance, and the duty of holding right opinions is one of paramount obligation...
...difficulty of defining the purpose of an institution may arise either from doubt as to its having any purpose, or from doubt as to which of its many purposes is of paramount importance. The difficulty of finding any satisfactory formula for the value of a college education is due to the latter rather than to the former of these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation...
...overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend as much as would be desirable in the vital business of education. And even without consideration of the financial side, is it not also a dangerous thing when a subsidiary part of the curriculum threatens to become paramount in importance? Good as it was, the 47 Workshop was not everything...
...more than one could expect here. Also Mrs. Pound and I are Westerners, both of us graduates of a state university, and both of us believers in the Western system of co-educational, state universities. I recognize the great work to be done in Western state universities, and its paramount importance for the country. I recognize also that there could be no better place to do that work than at the University of Wisconsin. I believe there is a real call for a vigorous man who understands the West and its institutions, to devote his best energies to such...
This man is a successful banker, owner of vast metallurgical interests, a shipping magnate, proprietor of vast estates and city property, a chemical producer, a tsar of finance. German newspapers call him "King of the Borse;" he is accused "of holding the paramount money power in his hands...