Word: consistency
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sire," he informed King Leopold from London exile, "the war is not finished . . . Politics do not consist of always choosing the best card. It is sometimes necessary to know how to play a bad card. At certain times it is better to perish in beauty than miserably to survive...
...first time since before the war the golf team will make a southern spring trip, playing vacation matches with the University of North Carolina on March 31, Virginia Polytechnical Institute on April 1, and the University of Virginia on April 2. The spring recess team will consist of the six low men in last fall's golf competition...
...storms send "microseisms" ahead of them, he explained. These consist of very slight tremors which travel through the ground faster than a mile a second. Extra-sensitive seismographs can pick up these waves and calculate the position and direction of the storm...
...several days or a week and the rest of the time go on about his business; 2) if it is long, the student is forced to specialize to an undesirable degree on one minute point; and 3) criticism and discussion of the student's work may consist of nothing more than a pencilled grade from a harassed anonymous section man, or at most a ten or fifteen minute discussion with a tutor or section man alone on the specific problems of the paper...
...side a set of teletypes records answers to the problems, which in Navy hands will consist mainly of ballistics questions. Numbers can be fed into the calculator either by the dials or by punched tape...