Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the students living in Houses, the regulations restricting the number of meals they may cat in other Houses to three a week is a source of bitter and constant annoyance. Now that the flat board rate of $8.50 has been introduced, and undergraduates must pay for 21 meals a week even if they eat at their club, their home, or Dirty Mary's, bookkeeping and budget considerations have bene simplified enough so that the subject of unlimited inter-House meals can be seriously considered at the next meeting of the committee of House masters...
Another draw back was the constant presence of chalk dust which permeated the camp in dry weather and overlaid it with "paste" when it was wet. Even towards the end-of the task, the surrounding area was scarred with white chalk marks which gave the workers considerable uneasiness since bombers had a prominent target, but the whiteness was finally plowed under...
When people in the future want to know what Britain was really like between the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries and the great bombings of London, this slightly refurbished journal of Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph) is one of the books they will read...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...
...Harvard regiment, open to any student, was formed to 1916 under the direction of Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., who was detailed to Cambridge at the urgent request of President Abbot Lawrence Lowell. He supervised the first R. O. T. C. courses given here, but most of the actual instruction was by regular Harvard professors, such as Professor Julian Lowell Cooldige '95, who retired a year ago as Master of Lowell House. These professors had received training during the previous summer at Plattsburg, and were considered qualified to give military instruction...