Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...
...holds several world records, has spent more time above 35,000 ft. than any other man, is regarded so highly as a flyer that insurance companies have been known to cut their premiums 50% on a new plane if he is to test-fly it. Last winter Tomlinson made constant trips to the substratosphere in the single-motored Gamma. Devil-may-care as ever, he spurned any such oxygen suit as Wiley Post wore, merely bundled up warmly, stuck an oxygen tube in his mouth. Says he: "I don't know what it may do to me eventually. Doctors...
...abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved in a few faces scowled from the sidewalks, but for the most part Bilbaína housewives who stayed in the town greeted the invaders with shrill enthusiasm. For week after week they had lived largely on constant gunfire and bombing. For a while at least there would be an end to fighting...
...behavior--manners and social customs. Superficial non-conformists are often spiritual slaves to a special set of ritualistic dogmas. A considerable degree of uniformity among a group of people in regard to everyday behavior is not to be despised; on the contrary, the beneficial effects of such a constant environment on the life of an individual make for sanity and happiness. But being one of a harmonious group, though essential for the well balanced life of most of us, carries with it a constant threat, a constant insidious pressure to conform to the very bottom of our souls...
...pictures booked of offensive films which the independent owner is compelled to take. Producers retort that this is untrue because block-booking contracts provide a 10 to 15% cancellation privilege. Great advantage of block-booking from the producers' point of view is that it gives them a constant, steady, measurable market for all the films they make. Independents retort that this dominance forces them to all sorts of evils like double-feature billing and Bank Nights. "Why do we have double features? Because the big boys wanted their theatres to use up the entire product of the studios...