Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colgate cheering was exceptional. A small handful from Hamilton kept up almost constant songs and yells throughout the game, under the guidance of a spectacular corps of cheerleaders...
Pulpit Rebel. Davies, who calls himself a "theological radical," is under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...bobby sox brigade. Johnson gets too cute at times, much to the brigade's delight, and the slapstick isn't always up to Shavian standards. But you don't have to be a bobby-soxer to enjoy Johnson's plight on his first duck-hunting trip, and constant adult laughter at the many good gags drowned out the most ambitious concerted squeals the soxers could muster last night...
...Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...result of almost constant pressure by a militant committee set up during the summer term to investigate Student Council activities, the Council bas slated a study of its constitution, by laws, and procedure as the first item on a busy fall agenda, when the Council meets this evening in Phillips Brooks House...