Word: prime
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...framers of the Japanese constitution. After the promulgation of the constitution he was sent by the Emperor to investigate the parliamentary systems of Europe. In the first cabinet organized by Marquis Ito Baron Kaneko held the portfolio of commerce and agriculture, and when Ito again became prime minister, he was chosen minister of justice. At the same time the Emperor made him a baron and a life members of the House of Peers for his distinguished services. Since then he has been mayor of Tokio until he resigned about a year...
...returning to Japan he was made professor of English at the Imperial University of Tokio, and within a year was appointed secretary of the privy council. In the first cabinet organized by Marquis Ito the baron held the portfolio of commerce and agriculture, and when the marquis again became prime minister, he was chosen minister of justice. At the same time the Emperor made him a baron and a life member of the House of Peers. Since then he has been mayor of Tokio until he resigned the office about a year ago. He was one of the farmers...
...prime consideration in respect to the substance presented is the amount and reliability of the evidence adduced to support each argument. This evidence cannot be too specifle. In the development of a University team it is an axiom that every contention drawn from an outside source be followed by full information as to the source and this even to the detail of a writer's official title or the page and name of the volume quoted. Mere rhetoric and as sertion unaccompanied by proof are considered of slight worth, and while the skiltul use of persuasion is encouraged, the ultimate...
...third question is, how far does the new plan tend to realize the prime object--the saving of expenses to Harvard students? Financially it can do better than the present system only by decreasing the expense ratio, or by increasing the sales. It is not the purpose of the Directors to reduce expenses, but so far as can be inferred, to increase them, and at the same time to increase the sales in proportion. There is no magic in "incorporation" which can avoid this plain issue. The sales now amount to about $250,000 a year; and further increase...
...prime minister is her only suitor at present, but the number is soon increased by the arrival of John de Breeze, a young American, and Lord Chichester, with his valet, Mackintosh. Chichester wants to buy the island for a tea plantation, but the king will not listen to him because he cannot pay cash. The other arrival, de Breeze, is the agent for an American trust which proposes to annex every country to its neighbor. He wants the king to come into the monopoly. King Philippine, however, has other aims. He thinks de Breeze would make a most suitable king...