Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON for their very kind remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...would bring about constant difficulties over contracts and bills due to the generous use of an individual's phone by his friends for more and more expensive calls...
Edna L. Bernstein would like to get $350 for a portrait of a petunia. George Constant, who painted zinnias and blue crabs, would take any reasonable offer...
...treatment, suggestion may work." Hence the successful cures accomplished in special neurotic cases by Christian Science, Buchmanism, Seventh-Day Adventism, and Coueism. Psychoanalysis "may uncover entirely too much for the patient's peace of mind. Cures by suggestion, on the other hand, are often superficial, depending on constant renewal of the. suggestion to avoid relapses...
...nearly a century there has been controversy over whether carbon was liquefied in the heat of the arc. The Cleveland chemists showed conclusively that the carbon does not liquefy but sublimes directly from a solid to a vapor as dry ice does. The sublimation point is a fundamental constant of the element and represents the maximum arc temperature. Determining this constant within narrow limits provides, according to Dr. Chaney, "a convenient and much needed bench mark for all high temperature measurements." It is of help especially to makers of abrasives, artificial gems, fine tools, fine steel for armor plate...