Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency to do so in herself and the consequences...
Most obvious of the implications of having "a major subject" will be increased specialization. The new plan has, of course, certain limitations. A student's liberty of choice is curtailed. Then, too, a college which demands the selection of a "major" or "field of concentration" runs the constant danger of becoming vocational and narrow in its highly departmentalized intellectual outlook...
Ever since we discovered TIME in Australia 18 months ago, we have been constant and avid readers of your publication...
...fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have described a constant just as true at Princeton of Terwillinger...
Other factors have been the increased efficiency of the club's fielding, the hitting of Outfielder Melvin Ott, the constant brilliance of Pitcher Carl Hubbell. Universally rated the best lefthander currently functioning, often rated the best in baseball history, Hubbell, a long, drawling Oklahoman, has been as valuable to the Giants this year as famed Christy Mathewson was to Giant teams before the War. Last week he won his 23rd victory of the season, his 13th...