Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problem child of Britain's wartime Parliament has been Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham, M.P.,pink-&-white, hard-drinking heir to a large textile fortune. Divorced with much publicity this summer, he has been in constant hot water with military authorities and is currently awaiting court-martial for riding an Army motorcycle against regulations, smashing it and his own skull...
First it was your constant use of the abortive term Negress; your farfetched designation of pickaninnies in a Chicago department store. . . . Now it is your use of "darky-driven" trucks! (TIME, July 21, p. 33, col. 1.) Damn!! What is wrong with TIME's policy toward the American Negro in the last year and a half? It's getting so I can't read an article about the race without being insulted...
According to the doctors, the rate of development is likely to remain quite constant throughout childhood. A child with a D.Q. of 50 at four weeks will probably be a whole year behind at two. A level below 65 usually indicates serious trouble. D.Q. tests may ward off tragedies by spotting insidious diseases that often go unnoticed until too late...
Nobody could say whether the rumor was true or not. Reason: OPM's ignorance (complicated by constant upward revisions of the Army's and Lend-Lease's estimates of their requirements) of how bad materials shortages really are. Despite its 2,124 paid employes, its 500 $1-a-year-men, its access to the books of all U.S. corporations, OPM still relies mostly on trade papers to tell it where materials are, how much is available, how much needed...
Night fighting over Britain, once a dark, lonely search for enemies, is now helped by constant radio instructions from ground control rooms where new radio detectors trace in detail the movements of both R.A.F. and enemy planes on sky charts. Other new devices prevent R.A.F. planes from being betrayed in the dark by exhaust flames or red-hot, glowing exhaust pipes...