Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, then, the prime fuction of the University is to teach its students. No other excuse for existence can possibly be arrived at. No matter how far-flung may be the empire of learning which the University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places...
Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts...
...Government sets greater store by its secrets, large and small, than the State Department. Prime secrets of State are treaty negotiations. Last week Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, who has been a woman for 66 years, had been a diplomat only five minutes when, immediately after being sworn in as Minister to Norway (TIME, April 12 et seq.), she received the press. At her elbow stood the State Department's grey, genial pressagent, Chief Michael J. McDermott of the Division of Current Information...
...days after the Coronation, Stanley Baldwin hastily cleared a table in Queen Anne's Drawing Room in St. James's Palace for an Imperial Conference with the four gentlemen who are his legal equals. New Zealand's Laborite Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, South Africa's General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera...
...four loyal Prime Ministers had just been gratified by the first Coronation ceremony (see col. 3) in history which featured separate oaths by the King for each Dominion. And King George had received them all at Buckingham Palace with equal deference (see cut). Colleague Baldwin was now anxious to capitalize that equality by letting them share his biggest headache: Britain's $7,500,000,000 bill for Rearmament...