Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keeping constant tabs, if necessary, on each locomotive and its load, Elwood's central control room will be able to do the right thing immediately in emergencies. The system saves money by eliminating block signals, with their miles of underground wire. A check on the system itself is provided by a white light in each cab, blinking every five seconds while the FM set is working, turning red if it goes haywire. The area of the Elwood plant is well within the range of perfect FM reception...
Humidity and temperture in the stacks are made to attract bequests are kept constant by a giant air-conditioning system which is installed on the ground floor of Widener. But even without this apparatus, the experts maintain that the thick insulation in the walls, of the building could alone keep conditions ideal for the most delicate volumes for three days...
Though Pierre Mercadier is the central figure of this book, the broad current of Aragon's story flows over and around him through four generations, with the steady popping of political and social disturbances in the background. Coincidence and the bedroom are in constant use. Aragon has a flair for the ironic or cruel anticlimax, for impaling passing figures on needle-pointed paragraphs...
...second hand cut the hour he speaks. The vibration which is the "sound" of his voice becomes an electrical vibration. It speeds along a wire to a building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach a point in the darkness...
...President's 24-year-old smell was a daily experience. Brought to the verge of bankruptcy by years of mismanagement, the city was unable to finance a proposed $42,000,000 sewage-disposal plant (TIME, Oct.. 13). City water is practically undrinkable,* and Philadelphians face the constant hazard of fire with an inadequate water-supply system...