Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infra-red rays, which every photographer knows pierce fog, are the basis of one system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver...
Almost the only constant thing about the magnetic pole is the fact that it is forever on the move. Every day it wobbles slightly, and over the years its "mean position" drifts slowly...
...must add to our sense of the disastrous foolishness in present conditions of this sniping and gibing . . . our surprise that so little is being done to reciprocate the constant Catholic invitation to better relations...
...Shaw, as you know, is just turned ninety, and, while some of his work has remained with us in its original freshness, "Arms and the Man" contains much that has become somewhat thin from constant wear. This, combined with a production by Elliot Duvey and a Boston Tributary company of mixed abilities, files the stage with diversion not unpleasant but rather strained...
While the records of a representative in California may seem remote to the voter in Massachusetts, in practically every important measure appearing before the Seventy Ninth Congress, Democrats from California voted with Democrats from Massachusetts. With Southern Democrats maintaining a constant bloe to swing the balance right or left, Congressmen split along strict party lines on everything from the Tidelands Oil Bill to the proposal to establish a permanent Wood-Rankin Committee...