Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general staffs of Britain, France, Italy and Belgium remain in constant liaison "for the period of emergency," the implication being that if no peaceful solution is reached by the Conference this liaison solidifies into a British-French-Italian-Belgian military alliance...
Last week M. Vandervelde maintained constant contact with Sir Walter Citrine, the recently knighted British Labor leader who heads the International Federation of Trade Unions. Except in Germany, Russia and Italy - countries in which trade unionism has been subordinated to the State - nearly all trade unionists are interlocked with the International Federation which is emphatically for Peace...
...might gather from the stage parody in Boy Meets Girl, in which a prankster buzzes for a composer, demands and gets a roundelay in 15 minutes. Composers and lyricists now attend conferences with producers and directors, receive specific assignments that take into consideration the personalities of the performers. One constant reminder is that a song must be catchy enough to impress on first hearing, as did Cheek to Cheek in Top Hat, Alone in One Night at the Opera...
...brothers, was an admirable and good-hearted fellow, but there was something about him the English found oppressive. "Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify . . . and their constant fear that they are being corrupted, are a noble, rather than a comfortable, element in the social life of the University." Rhodes Scholar Abimelech V. Oover has many points of difference with Rhodes Scholar Paul Engle, but readers who have met them both in print will see Max Beerbohm...
...light's speed, this is almost 14 mi. per sec. slower than the results of ten years ago. Inconstancies between individual measurements were ascribed to experimental error or "disturbing influences of unknown origin." But no doubt was expressed that the true velocity of light is indeed a constant constant...