Word: changelessly
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...remained a Victorian. Tall, with a changeless hat crowning her changeless pompadour, she bears a striking resemblance to Britain's Dowager Queen Mary. When Edward VIII, then visiting Washington as Prince of Wales, was ushered into her presence, he exclaimed, "Good Lord-there's Mother...
...assign man a place in the animal kingdom and some of them, notably Anaximander, had an inkling of evolution. But they were content to speculate and philosophize. In the early 19th Century anthropology as a science had made little headway. Species and varieties of plants and animals were considered changeless, and so were the races of man. The strange manlike bones found here & there in caves and quarries were thought to be the remains of monsters. The beliefs and practices of primitive people were shrugged off as so much sordid playacting. When the origin and fluidity of species, the significance...
...cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that the essential contributions of modern science, the principal values of man's recent learning, should be brought...
...greatest evils in the mass production which is the modern factory system is the use of man power as machinery, a sort of machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak at 9 o'clock...
...Ziroonderel, his father's friend. Out of 17 thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...