Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Volume 25 in the Harvard Studies in Education. Yet all readers will find sufficient, if they persist, to hold their eye to the page, even if the history of the school is in the last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been constant, through those three hundred years, to one purpose and function. Still the moral to be drawn from this 'fidelity to tradition' is exciting and is apt to bestir one to the task not only of perpetuating but also of propagating the ideals for which the Latin School stands...
...precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...pointed to a poster. It was Sox. Hastily summoned, a veterinarian gave the dog an injection of glucose and a 50-50 chance to live, rushed it to the O'Haras' home in Pawtucket. There last week Sox, wasted from 20 to 6½ lb., was under constant care of two veterinarians and Mrs. O'Hara. Finder Kelley, more concerned with his creditors than with Sox's health, kept mum about what he would do with his $1,000 windfall...
...driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen and a dozen cars filled with detectives in constant touch by radio with police headquarters, the President drove to his town house on East 65th Street through streets which had been cleared of all traffic for half an hour before his arrival. Although it was dinner hour on a rainy night, the city's heavy traffic was again disrupted...
Arriving in New Orleans to open a three-day engagement in The Constant Wife, Ethel Barrymore wheeled on a young woman newshawk, snapped: "I don't give interviews, especially to little whelps who don't know anything...