Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradley: "It is clearly apparent that in the absence of any precipitant danger, the nation must curb within reason that share of the national income it would devote to its common defenses . . . The danger of conflict today appears to have slackened, partly because we are chewing sedatives in this constant war of nerves...
...wish to lessen the present tension," Mindszenty had written. "I voluntarily admit that, in principle, I committed the acts in the indictment . . . After 35 days of constant meditation ... I consider that an agreement between church and state is necessary ... I hereby willingly declare-free from pressure, of course-that I am willing to withdraw from the exercise of my duties for a time...
...everybody else, where even a son fears his father and fathers fear their own blood-sons, as all become serfs and victims of the relentless god of Baal! . . . They are wild words of warning, and, unless we listen well and realize that we must counteract them by concerted, constant prayer and action, then these words but foretell America's and the whole world's doom...
Diamond Lil (by Mae West; produced by Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...
...said he hoped that the rise was over. "Education," said he, "has reached the point . . . where it is doing a little quiet self-analysis ..." A college might soon not have to worry about how many students it must educate, but which students it should educate, for one thing was constant-"the importance in time and in eternity of the individual student...