Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which eventually broke over Machado's bespectacled head and threatens to keep the situation in constant turmoil until the cause is removed. If you are a liberal, the cause is simply the stupid tariff. If you happen to be a Marxist, the cause is the economic conflict between rival sugar interests which produced the tariff and which will keep it there; which cast off the Phillipines...
...editorial competition offers even better training in writing and in developing the ability to think clearly and put the thoughts on paper concisely. Candidates will be under the constant supervision of members of the Board...
...many young men come to Cambridge to fail pitifully in that first testing year that it naturally is the constant effort of men who must guide their educational and recreational life to lay emphasis on the pitfalls ahead. They knowingly counsel that carelessness, procrastination, and lack of strength to organize the week's hours lead only to an early termination of association between the undergraduates and his chosen college...
...weighs less than 125 lb. His nickname, "Millimetternich," is an affectionate reference to physical smallness combined with political sagacity. His clothes are neat, impeccably brushed but of slightly archaic cut that smacks of the wheat fields and the Bauernbund. His most noticeable characteristics are his smile, which is constant, and the strength of his fingers. Like most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical Catholicism. Each morning, before going to the same big sunny office...
Have been a constant reader of TIME, and am amazed beyond words that anyone so utterly ignorant of facts should be permitted to write an article for general circulation. The statements are both untrue and misleading...