Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tracing the city from the 1884-1926 period, which Lincoln Steffins accurately depicted as "unbelievably corrupt," up to the present time, when it is generally conceded to be the "best governed city in the United States", Mr. Seasongood described the long struggle of the past twelve years as a constant warfare against party machinery and party patronage...
Analogies of the sea haunt Virginia Woolf: "As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all have it; they all lose it. Now she is dull and thick as bacon; now transparent as a hanging glass." Virginia Woolf's novels are all attempts to answer the same inexhaustible question: What is the nature of life? "The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account...
Burton's discovery of Lake Tanganyika in 1858 was his last big undertaking, met with incredible difficulties from the start. He was underfinanced, caravan mutinies and desertions were constant. On the last stages he was half-blinded and paralyzed by fever. Quarrels with his lieutenant John Hanning Speke, who went on alone to discover Victoria Nyanza, echoed for 20 years after. To escape them, Burton went to Salt Lake City to have a look at the Mormons. Brigham Young's harem reminded him of a "large English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral...
With all due respect to those painters who are known from coast to coast-both through ability and through constant publication of their names -Sidney Laufman is considered by a number of critics one of the finest landscape painters working in this country today. EDITH LODER GOULD...
Therefore, Dean Smith proposed, let the President have a chance to have his way, but by national referendum, not legislative fiat. The President wanted to rejuvenate the present Court, provide for a constant infusion of new blood into it. Then let an amendment be offered providing for compulsory retirement of justices at, say, 75. If anyone objected that the Court would still be packed on retirement of five justices at once.* let present justices be retired gradually, according to seniority. President Roosevelt argued that an amendment could easily be blocked by reactionaries in only 13 States. Scored Dean Smith...