Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owned by General Navigation Co., Ltd., Vancouver, the biggish steel steamer Mogul has lain for months off the coast of Southern California. Like a great sow whose piglets feed and scamper, the Mogul has provided constant streams of assorted liquor to a fleet of ten speedboats...
...thoughts and experiences are suigeneris, that the world outside is chaos, that even in the inner world has little meaning. None of his own crises can ever be interpreted in the light of the common experience of men; each is single, alone, terrifying. In Mr. George Moore this constant dominance of the ego became only faintly irritating, but in Mr. Murry, mere humourless than Moore, and faced with disturbances of a more fundamental kind, it hovers on the embankment between tragedy and pathos...
...sport. The wail rises sporadically and wholeheartedly from small groups of individuals, but formal debating just does not seem to pack the punch that carries widespread interest among the present-day undergraduates. Oral expression even as every other feature of our social, political, and economic existence, is in a constant state of flux, and for the time being at least debating is staggering under...
...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...
Five months ago two French aviators named Gate and Constant-Bree, flying around the west African coast, vanished in a storm over Portuguese Guinea. After several weeks without word of the men, Pilot Gate's wife went in search of them, insisted on accompanying a detail of Portuguese soldiers into the wilderness of the Cacheo River. Last week the Senegal correspondent of the Paris Petit Journal reported that Mme Gate & party had returned to the coast, not with her husband but with horrid information gleaned from natives. Pilots Gate & Constant-Bree had crashed in the river region. There black...