Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is permanently planted in a new, $10,000,000 palace in Geneva. Last week the German press took up the problem. Under Switzerland's new neutral position the further stay of "the one-sided power and propaganda apparatus of the League on Swiss soil must become a constant and embarrassing burden for the Swiss Government," warned the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung...
Three years ago an armistice halted the war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, a dank jungle region sandwiched between the two nations, over which they have been squabbling for a century. Almost constant negotiations by neutral powers since the armistice have brought the dispute no nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest...
...Constant costs met perennially, such as the overhead of Congress, departments...
...axis, and the speed of rotation has been accurately measured. Nevertheless, Sister Mary's pendulum will be something more than a mere exhibition. Since a pendulum's rate of oscillation depends on the force of gravity at the point where it operates, it will keep a constant record of the force of gravity for the Chicago area...
...meat-packing district (where several of his seven brothers, like their father before them, work as meat packers), still goes around with the same girl he went with in 1929-a pretty stenographer, Josephine Kersigo, who makes novenas before his major tournaments. Catholic Johnny Goodman's most constant golfing companion is Father John Palubicki, pastor of his church...