Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place in the world where a man can work within a ten-minute walk of a quarter of a million people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop a constant interchange of thought. I don't see why anybody anxious to see civilization and culture develop to its highest standard should complain about the size and congestion of New York. My only regret is that it isn't large enough to include kindred spirits all over the world whom...
...exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw's straw people. If you know the locale, you will recognize familiar faces...
...with his chemistry. Many important biological and physiological facts are explained from the chemical point of view, including the passage of a piece of steak from the mouth to its final resting place in the structure of the body and the unrivaled efficiency of the blood in preserving a constant alkalinity under various disturbing conditions. Course 2a is a prerequisite...
...west for his health), suffered from chronic asthma, result of War gassing. Though warned that crossing the mountains might kill him, he insisted on accompanying his team on its eastern trips. He was continually doubled up on the field benches with coughing fits but lighthearted, debonair in between, a constant example of courage. Long before asthma killed him he had become a tradition at St. Mary...
...sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with dark hair parted in the middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell...