Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selection Committees should endeavor to return to a fairer balance between athletics, leadership, and scholastic ability. Qualities of leadership are best developed through frequent contact with one's fellow men and through extra-curricular life in a great university rather than through constant haunting of a library. While it is obvious that high intellectual ability is essential, the recent overemphasis on this qualification and the tendency to sacrifice the other qualities which Rhodes envisaged are unfortunate...
...committees, for it is too much to ask of man of affairs that he continually make the trip to Cambridge only to find that he has no power and the matters before him are purely departmental. There might well be a compromise between old and new Visitors, for the constant and intelligent auditors are of as much service as the experts consulted annually on matters of policy. The "old-fashioned" visitors would of necessity be residents of Greater Boston, and possibly a Harvard degree somewhere in the past would insure their interest. But it is doubtful if the Visiting Committee...
...typical polio-encephalitis victim had blinding, excruciating headaches, accompanied by nausea and vomiting so severe that artificial feeding was sometimes necessary. About ten patients suffered bladder paralysis, necessitating the constant and painful use of catheters. Two developed arthritis. Many women had sharp abdominal pains, due to attacks by the germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
Humanity, of which Boldini had one understanding, is the constant subject of sad-eyed, diminutive Raphael Soyer, who has another. His twin, Moses, and his Brother Isaac are also able painters, but in the last few years Raphael's single-minded portrayals of pathos in Manhattan's sober poor have given him the greater reputation. Last week his first one-man show since 1935, at the Valentine Gallery, brought 14th Street impressively to fashionable 57th. In Soyer's accomplished paintings of Greenwich Village characters there was neither humor nor brilliance but a great deal of dun truth...
...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...