Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various wards, etc., need almost a different book each day in order to keep them occupied and amused. In other words, there is a big demand for books. Since we have men on board from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn., etc., nearly every kind of book is in constant use. When a man is on the Sick List and is several thousand miles away from home, when our ship is at sea for days at a time, a book or magazine is a real luxury even if it is several years...
Enormously popular after Show Boat, Helen Morgan often got as much as $2,500 for one singing of Bill. During Prohibition she was in constant difficulty with Government snoopers; several nightclubs that she owned were smashed up. After each raid, the names of the Morgan clubs were changed. What started simply as The Helen Morgan Club became the Chez Helen Morgan, Helen Morgan's Summer Home, and finally, with Repeal...
...question was not whether yoga had improved Nova's stance, balance and clumsy footwork. It was whether age (27) and constant fighting (six times this year) had slowed up the magnificent fighting machine that was Louis...
...years, ever since Hutchins began his campaign to put the study of philosophy ahead of the study of science, the university has been in a constant intellectual furor. Students staged a running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...
...little while, then released, it feels cool. This generation of heat by the band . . . proves that the relation between the heat of the rubber and its compression is similar to that of gas compressed by a piston in a vessel. If the gas is kept at a constant volume . . . the pressure on the piston will increase proportionately with the temperature...