Word: paramount
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...line of outdoor sports, which is more than can be said for the typical American student. The English seem to have approached the ideal of just enough work and just enough play. There is a happy medium, a moderation between study and athletics. Winning the game is not the paramount idea, but rather playing a good game. W. B. Butler in the Michigan Daily
...have sent our children to be instructed; wherefore then, do they roll rocks?" And indeed this was true; no longer did anyone come there to gain training of the mind. They came only for the great sport of Rolo. Rolo was the raison d'etre of the university, the paramount appeal to the people of the Inca realm. The furore which this revelation caused must have been tremendous, says Senor Alvarotez. The cry was taken up on all sides. Leaf after leaf of the college paper was covered with wild appeals to reason, conjecturing what the future would bring forth...
...pious ejaculations nor passionate shibboleths. It is much more than differences of opinion between organized labor and employers. The controversy does not rest upon mere economic circumstance. It has essential social and political aspects of fundamental importance to the citizen individually and as a part of the public, with paramount interest in the principles at issue, as well as an economic stake in the effect of right employment relations upon the continuity and efficiency of the agencies of production, distribution, and communication, upon whose adjustment and operation depend social stability and progress...
...pious ejaculations nor passionate shibboleths. It is much more than differences of opinion between organized labor and employers. The controversy does not rest upon mere economic circumstance. It has essential social and political aspects of fundamental importance to the citizen individually and as a part of the public, with paramount interest in the principles at issue, as well as an economic stake in the effect of right employment relations upon the continuity and efficiency of the agencies of production, distribution and communication, upon whose adjustment and operation depend social stability and progress. The rights at issue involve the most fundamental...
...will associate. Negation in this regard is quite as important as affirmation. Like all other rights it is relative and not absolute. It is exercised subject to the equal right of others to become part of or refrain from becoming a part of any association formed, and the paramount right of all the people to regulate association, and to distinguish combination from conspiracy, which is its illegal species...