Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average pinball machine collects something over eight dollars worth of nickels a week, and goes through a great deal of trouble in the process. The 40 or 50 of these machines which are distributed throughout a number of quick-eat restaurants surrounding the Square, represent 20 years of constant improvement. They do everything from measuring coins to adding up numbers which would stump a math major; through these electrical gymnastics they have been attracting ever-increasing numbers of students to what may eventually become Harvard's major indoor sport...
...dozen almost sure scoring shots, and played probably the finest goal tending game the Arena will see this winter. He is possessed of a superb sense of timing and distance, and of a set of reflexes which consistently frustrated would-be Harvard scorers as well as being a constant source of annoyance to the majority of partisans present...
Neither unions nor management are happy under the present system of handling "essential" industries, where the constant threat of injunctions tends to nullify collective bargaining. Yet when strict adherence to the principles of pure collective bargaining imperils the national health or safety, open fights cannot be allowed...
...balloons, there is much use of puns ("very-close veins"), but even more painful than that is the constant resort to New Haven, Connecticut for the setting of any situation involving actual or implied sexual orgies. This quite possibly flushes fresh life into some of the wilted egos down there, but isn't it rather absurd...
...International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...