Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant reader of TIME, I have often spoken of the accuracy with which matters are reported in this wonderful weekly. You can imagine my surprise when I saw the issue of March 2, and under the Congress, sub-topic "Green Pastures," read of my having made my maiden speech in the House, Friday Feb 21 during the debate on the Soil Erosion Bill This statement is most inaccurate. My maiden speech was made on the Floor of the House April 15, 1935, while the House was considering the Social Security measure...
...Untouchable] leader was rather critical of Christianity's constant emphasis upon personal experience at the expense of any wider reference. 'Why have you not seen the importance of a religion that reaches out into all life and all relationships?' he asked. Continuing, he declared with deep feeling, 'If you are going to compromise with evil conditions while you stress personal religion exclusively, I tell you now I am not with...
...increasing so rapidly that 14-passenger planes now in service are incapable of handling it. With 40-passenger planes, say operators, traffic volume would be almost trebled while operating cost remained the same. In addition, according to the airlines, standardization would put an end to needless obsolescence caused by constant slight improvements in rival's equipment...
...Einstein universe the velocity of light is regarded as a fundamental constant. Ten years ago Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson clocked the velocity of light between two mountains in California, got an average result of 186,284.45 mi. per sec. For further precision he built a mile-long vacuum tube. Before the measurements were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after...
Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...