Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oxygen tanks were brought in, the stream of visitors continued. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson called. So did Mr. Justice Sutherland. President Roosevelt kept in touch by telephone. Chief Justice Hughes called, and Mr. Justice Brandeis. Finally when his life could be sustained only by constant oxygen, admittance was denied to every visitor but one. This week, as Mr. Justice Holmes's 94th year was drawing to an end, physicians announced that that Last Visitor was at his door...
Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged, and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases thus represent no casual "decoration." They are a constant work of art, expressing the consecrated thought of the artist creating perpetual beauty in the worship...
...addicted to aviation cracks up with his father, mother, and sister, all of whom are killed. The accident upsets him terrifically and his mental state gets somewhat non compos. Noble friend in need sticks by him and helps him with the lady who is very much concerned and makes constant effort to save young man from himself--a task of questionable value. Mental trouble finally disappears and the audience departs in satisfaction if not extreme pleasure. George Brent quite bad as the sal young man, Kay Francis attractive as young lady. Warren William quietly capable as trusty Samaritan. The photography...
...year Harvard has a great advantage in man power. Yale has only two presentable lines with one spare to fill in the gaps, while the Crimson will rotate three lines and still be able to throw in Dewey and Duffey as relief. It has been this fast turnover with constant rest periods that has allowed Stubbs to develop his furious attack. Hockey is the fastest game on the rolls and a large supply of replacements will swing the scoring in almost every case...
Author Kingsmill does not believe that Dickens was "a simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable emotional hypochondriac, living in fear lest any breath of fresh air should penetrate into the hothouse of his inner life." Dickens' marriage was unhappy, but he did little to gain popular sympathy when, after separating from his wife, who had lived with him 22 years, borne him ten children...