Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roseville Methodist Church in Newark, N.J. Mrs. Amelia Carr was a constant ray of sunshine. Almost daily her liveried chauffeur took her to visit the sick in the parish. She was a generous contributor to charity. When her 71-year-old husband took ill, she prayed at his bedside, devotedly nursed him back to health...
...many of the Kazaks and their animals died in the desert, but the caravan finally came into the long panhandle of Kansu Province. Kansu was not better than Sinkiang. The Chinese Moslems did not welcome their coreligionists from the west, and for two years the Kazaks fought a constant guerrilla war. Desperately they decided to move on, as Tartar tribes have done since time immemorial...
William Boyce: The Prospect Before Us (Sadler's Wells Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert; Victor; 6 sides). Neglected 18th-Century Composer Boyce furnishes a mincing score (arranged by Lambert) for a ballet danced in London...
...concrete highways and concrete-and-steel bridges made the ferry obsolescent. When the Mid-Hudson Bridge was opened in 1930, the Poughkeepsie ferry, which once had three boats in constant service, hit its fatal snag. By undercutting the bridge toll (25? to 50?), it managed to keep one boat going. Last week, when the bridge toll came down to 35?, the line gave up. On the old Brinckerhoff, lashed to the landing, the fires went dead...
...Constant student demands for certain books in the College Library have resulted in the request, by Frederick C. Kilgore, Library Assistant, for donations of 17 oft-demanded volumes, and three series of books, to the Widener collection...