Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens in efforts to save lives that more lives are lost than those originally at stake. That is what happened last fortnight to Soviet Russia. In the jumbled waste of pack ice east of Greenland four scientists were dangerously drifting on their "'station," a floe which was in constant danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond...
Confronted with a constant barrage of questions from a bench of judges that included Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, the Honorable Stanley E. Qua, Massachusetts justice, and John J. Burns, former counsel for the SEC, the Holmes Law Club defeated the Williston Club in the second round of the quarter-final Ames Competition last light...
...waste all this valuable material?" he asked. He and his assistants* experimented, found no harm done to mothers by draining placental blood immediately upon birth, found-as he announced in this month's Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics-that it can be stored indefinitely and that it is "a safe, constant, efficient and lucrative source of blood for transfusions." Estimating the recovery of four ounces of blood per delivery, the total saving of blood in U. S. childbirths would aggregate some 60,000 gal. per year...
...Military balance might thus be regarded as inclining toward the Government. But that prospect is complicated by other factors, of which the most important are first, the food shortage from which the areas in Government possession are suffering, secondly, the wearying and exhausting effect of constant air raids on the civil population where there is a deficiency of means to check them...
Though each year 700 new convicts arrive at Devil's Island, at year's end death and desertion account for about 700 missing. Thus the convict population remains constant at about 3,500. Dry Guillotine illustrates these grim statistics in the making, grinds on with an almost casual description of diseases, guillotinings, tortures, feuds, corruption. In the end a kind of tranquillity creeps into Belbenoit's account...