Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. B. Elaine Fox, 48. president of Clover Farm Stores Co. (4,000 stores), NRA retail and grocery code adviser; of exhaustion after four-and-a-half days of constant hiccoughing; in Charleroi...
Author Schauffler stresses the fact that Brahms had a strong peasant streak which accounted for his constant use of folk-songs, for the terseness and simplicity of much of his music, for the peasantlike economy with which he used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with the imagination of a genius. Brahms never married, never defied convention as did the overromanticized Rich ard Wagner. But he was no ascetic. His mother bred in him an Oedipus complex which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano...
...right one, for the articles are built carefully out of facts presented coolly. "Steeplejack" thinks that an undergraduate's best training for future worth is in taking something be knows, namely the score on college as it is, and examining it with candid vitality and solid control. Constant humorous recriminations in "The Dartmouth," campus daily, suggest that this policy gets under the skin. Or maybe it is not so much our intention as its effect that troubles people...
...sloping surface. Inheritance in animals is another subject of experiment now. A pure breed of rats has been bred generation after generation by mating brother with sister; but for the most accurate results, animals must be kept in good health and subjected to uniform temperature and diet, which requires constant care and attention. Instruments which will allow for the variation of living organisms when under observation are absolutely essential and a special shop is maintained to the laboratories to build the simpler instruments...
Stripped of its technicalities, the commodity dollar is a means of keeping the unit of value in constant relationship to price changes. It is a perfect theory and in a financial Utopia would work excellently. But since governments are not immune from politics and manipulation, especially abroad, where central banks and governments are in intimate contact every day, the chances of a practical and sound method of maintaining a unit of value by the commodity standard are remote...