Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready. . . ." "but, by God, he was . . ." and in the same category may well be placed the omnipresent references to the shining eyes and wagging tail of Brewster, the canine mascot of the expedition, as he scampered gaily through the woods...
Since the death of Jacksonian democracy the agrarian interests of the country have labored under the constant domination of the industrial and have swayed from one party to the other in a vain attempt to find a permanent resting place. The political subjugation of agriculture has been fully reflected by every administration since the Civil War. All efforts have been directed toward the encouragement of industry. The periodic uprisings of the farmers have been staved off by temporary palliatives. This policy has failed dismally since the World War, and the present situation of the farmer is the most serious problem...
...amazing social changes during the past two decades. Starting with the War, it carries through the times of unrest, strikes and the jazz age. It recalls the boom and the crash--and the thousand and one things that brought bewilderment to the average man who looked at the constant changes...
...Nevertheless, the continuation of deaths in the Army Air Corps must stop. . . . Will you therefore please issue immediate orders to the Army Air Corps stopping all carrying of airmail except on such routes, under such weather conditions and under such equipment and personnel conditions as will insure . . . against constant recurrence of fatal accidents...
...after giving birth to four very handsome daughters, Russia's German-born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher...