Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are a few among us who still, consciously or unconsciously, live in a state of constant protest against the daily processes of meeting modern needs. Most of us are willing to recognize change and to give it reasonable and constant help...
...Government itself, whether it be that of a city or that of a sovereign state or that of the union of states, must, if it is to survive, recognize change and give to new needs reasonable and constant help. . . People require and people are demanding up-to-date government in place of antiquated government, just as they are requiring and demanding Triborough Bridges in the place of ancient ferries." Beginning a three-week vacation as he entrained for Hyde Park immediately after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home...
...clippers sailed out of Salem, Newburyport, Baltimore to capture the oceans of the world for two decades, carry 90%, of U. S. trade. By 1914 the U. S. Merchant Marine was carrying less than 10% of U. S. trade. Since the War it has been kept afloat only by constant Government help. Last week, when President Roosevelt signed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, experts thought that Congress had finally offered enough help to do some good...
...Matthews' Interwoven bears the authentic stamp of pioneer documents, is the quaint and kindly chronicle of a lady who was born near the present site of Breckenridge in 1861, carries her story, with the stories of her family, to 1900. Sallie Reynolds grew up when Indians were a constant menace, when families huddled together in the uncertain protection of forts in face of raids. She saw enough of the ruthlessness of early settlers to believe in "the inherent nobility of the Red Man." She casually tells a story of a young gunman who killed an unoffending Indian while...
That nothing in the universe moves faster than light is a fundamental axiom of modern physics. The velocity of light is accepted as "basic constant," is given the symbol c for mathematical notation, is counted as 2.9986X10 10 cm. sec.-1-or roughly...