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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building is rising near the Peabody Museum to house the University's gigantic automatic calculator. This machine, which did invaluable secret war work, is at present located in the basement of the Physics Research Laboratory, and is in constant use 24 hours a day, 20 by the Navy, and four by the University for its own research projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giant Calculator to be Installed in New Math Computation Structure | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...plethora of accents--most of which are aimed at Cockney and miss by wide margins--are a constant reminder that this is Summer Theatre. Dame May Whitty, for whom you will probably be looking, will be the little old lady in the wheel-chair, surrounded by the various people who make this pleasant, if not very provocative, pastime for a cool evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...then an unknown clerk in a Swiss patent office, rescued science. In his Theory of Special Relativity (1905) he abandoned Newton's assumption of independent mass and force. In its place he put the assumption, well supported by observation, that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant, no matter what the speed of its source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crossroads | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Constant Wendell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Youth groups and their conferences, run by professional "young people," and often taken over by extremist groups, are constant thorns in the side of any school or college administration. To those who have watched organization after organization mushroom suddenly in the fertile soil of good intentions and able publicity, only to die or become discredited almost immediately, the proposal of an International Student Conference in Prague this summer can bring no starry-eyed enthusiasm. Clearly it will be impossible to divorce political differences from any phase of the convention; for example, the establishment of a permanent world youth organization, complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leap, But Look | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

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