Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from it's story. It is Mr. Leherer's delightful bundling techniques, the numerous rique remarks and situations Charles Ruggles' philosophical grumbling that sends the audience chuckling and wheezing. Mr Ruggles plays the comfort-loving father who cares little for church-going, flag waving or his wife's constant admonitions and advice. Mary Boland is given little opportunity to be her usual hysterical self, but she carries off the part of the dominating mother with comical sterness while Mr. Ruggles is stealing most of their scenes...
That put us on the spot. Maybe people think we like these games; at any rate, they must wonder at our constant interest in them. On this occasion we are asked to bring to fame the Freshman whose lovely, drooping eyelids carried his team to a 3 to 1 victory over the unhappy Sirens. We think it indecent...
...pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance...
About that time (1924) Dr. Minot learned from Dr. Whipple, who soon became "my closest friend," about the effect of liver on secondary anemia. So with some confidence and Dr. Murphy's constant help, Dr. Minot began to feed pernicious anemics with liver. The results were too miraculous for hasty announcement. Drs. Minot and Murphy, with proper salute to Dr. Whipple, made their formal announcement...
...point, however, the industry was in perfect accord last week: Federal regulation was a colossal fizzle. The overwhelming majority of the industry was ready to cooperate with Administrator Ickes in the suppressing of the festering hot oil racket. Yet after a year under the code and despite constant thunder from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Treasury, hot oil flowed freer than ever. The sole landmark in the oil badlands was the fact that the price of crude was still $1 per bbl. And by last week it was no longer a question of whether...