Word: constant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been stopped. But the last named form of trust does not combine competition companies. The Federal Steel Company, for instance, bought up mines, manufactories dealing with the product in its various stages of refinement, and steamship and transportation companies. Such a system simply insures to the corporation a constant supply of raw material and a market for the finished product, but does not remove the healthful element of competition...
...peculiar and a strange language. Even after they had corrected their first errors, they were considered eccentric, for they were beginning a serious and important literary movement. They did not merit the name of decadents, for their dream was to raise poetry to its more noble duties. The constant use of symbols has led to their being called symbolists. The celebrated critic Brunetiere was among the first to defend them and to explain their theories. The young writers had also a number of small reviews in which they defended their ideas. Among those that are still published are La Mercure...
...graduate: "It depends upon the West whether Yale shall become the primate of colleges in this country. The West should give it its young blood and brawn, and we should begin to send a constant stream of promising young men Yale ward. The very democratic character of Yale has made it the institution that appeals to the West. It has somehow from its beginnings given out a spirit that is consonant with the feelings and aspirations and admiration of the West, and therefore Yale is, of all colleges today, the idol of the West. I see a significance beyond this...
...wished to perpetuate this feeling. The fund was originally $70,468.54; but with the addition of interest it grew to $70,478.98. The building when complete with fixings and furniture will cost about $65,000, which will leave an endowment of $10,000, that the committee hopes to keep constant...