Word: prime
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...neglect of the logic of history have missed the most important as well as the most interesting portion The number of battles in a given war, their dates and the officers commanding are non-essential, but the causes and the unexpected results of the war are of prime interest. No man planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing in political conceptions, with religious faiths as divergent as Chrisianity admits, scattered along two thousand miles...
...several excellent portraits and caricatures of famous Parliamentary leaders, by F. C. Gould, the contemporary cartoonist. Many of these, like Gladstone, had long careers; while, on the other hand, such men as Randolph Churchill, destined in the light of his early progress to a great career, if not a Prime Ministership, were ruined through a single fatal speech or a sudden change of sentiment...
...Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith," by L. B. Walford; "Marcella," "Robert Elsmere," by Mrs. H. Ward...
...fastest sprinters in the South. In the 400-metre run, Hillman, who did the quarter-mile in Canada last year in 49 2 5 seconds is probably the best man. In the Marathon the runners have the most serious outlook, as the Greeks consider this event of prime importance and make every effort to win it. This race was the only athletic event won by a Greek in the Olympic games...
Thomas of Princeton in reply argued that in these days freshmen are competent to select for themselves their courses of study. Princeton has adopted a system whereby this is permitted. To require a man to take unnecessary subject is high injustice; it is of prime importance that a system of study does not bring restriction to certain fixed courses...