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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads are crowded with thousands of refugees who are under constant aerial strafing, suffering from food and water shortage and wearied from the pace that on the Shan States front carried the Japanese forward 350 miles in two weeks, or 25 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FEVER OF DEFEAT | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, SUPPLY: By Greenland's Icy Mountains | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...news to second place one day last week in order to defend his honor. His four-column lead story announced the News's willingness to reprint (at regular advertising rates) the advertisement attacking Patterson, his cousin Colonel McCormick and Hearst for "your endless carping, spreading of unease, your constant spittle of suspicion of our Government and Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Patterson Solicits an Ad | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

University Cyclotron Committee: Baldwin R. Curtis, John J. Livingood and Roger W. Hickman, for a monocyclic network for supplying constant current to the cyclotron radio frequency power supply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $40,849 AWARDED TO FACULTY MEMBERS FOR RESEARCH WORK | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

Leaving Sullivan in the 1890s, Wright rapidly evolved a style of his own, a spacious, low-slung type of building, whose simple planes and monolithic unity of design were to remain constant features of Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Usonian Evolution | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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