Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed method of bookkeeping. Government expenditures have for several years been in effect divided into two types -ordinary (Government operating expenses, national defense, interest on public debt, etc.) and extraordinary (relief, highways, Civilian Conservation Corps, flood control, public buildings, etc.). The former he would have remain fairly constant from year to year; but extraordinary expenses would chart (in reverse) the country's ups and downs, and he suggested that these expenses be treated as national investments...
Chicago music-lovers, remarkably constant in their devotion to Conductor Stock, are also remarkably devoted to the memory of Conductor Thomas. Every year since Conductor Thomas' death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock...
Nothing is simpler to understand than II Duce's colonial policy, Salvemini claims, "since the Italian dictator has to do something to keep his subjects in a constant state of expectation. . . Ethiopia is just the opposite of an asset to Italy...
...Frederic N. Watriss, "Mummie." In more typical moments, she led a night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...
Satirev crushed the varsity pole team 14-13 in a game Saturday night on the Commonwealth Armory tanbark as the indoor pole championship season got under way. Before the constant fire of the 101st Field Artillery the Blue Jays gave way 12-6, while the Yardlings lost 8-5 to the Newport trio...