Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wildeat trails partially broken. Thirteen inches at summit and 11 1-2 inches average of wet snow over hard crust provides good skiing, not too fast. Stowe, Vt.: Continued snowfall makes good skiing on Mt. Mansfield. The continuance of tonight's rain makes prophesy difficult. If the temperature remains constant, conditions north of Laconia should be excellent, if it warms up there will probably be a breakable crust in most places. Better telephone before going...
Long before he moved from Germany to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Albert Einstein wrote an equation based on Planck's little constant h to explain how and why light falling on a metal kicks electrons out of the metal, setting up electric currents. This photoelectric effect is now familiar to laymen because it serves to open doors in restaurants and railway stations, operate drinking fountains...
...winners from last year who will turn out in the next few days. Hopes for this year's team have been considerably bolstered by the showing Leo Ecker has made so far. A question mark because of his broken leg last year, Leo's injured member has withstood the constant scrimmages which are a part of the preliminary work the pucksters are now doing, and will apparently be ready to take his old position at right wing...
...thoroughly cleaned. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures of all food are under constant check. No food is allowed to accumulate, to spoil, or to be utilized as left-overs...
Needless to say, "The Lives of Talleyrand" is a defense of that shrewd man who managed to slip out from under five successive decaying governments before they fell and keep his political power at an almost constant zenith. Crane Brinton does not attempt to picture Talleyrand as a "good" man in the ethical sense of the word; but he insists that he is just as "good" a man as those parliamentarians of the French Revolution who asserted that all men are free and equal, and then promptly turned around to draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise...