Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the united support of our Republic and of the allied countries to effective machinery, to raise the standard of the workers' condition in backward countries, to help humanize industry for the common weal is a paramount duty which our Republic must perform...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
...government of the country were to be considered paramount among all national activities and the political duties of citizenship were ranked above all others, it is evident that then a clearer opinion on the matter might be formulated. And the opinion would seem necessarily to be this: we need rather a considerable number of men with highly developed ability and brilliant attainments than an unlimited host of comparatively able average...