Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month the Houston had been taking it in a hopeless, losing, running battle with the powerful Imperial Fleet. Her crew was red-eyed and groggy from constant days of battle and alerts, from nights of air attack. She was running low on antiaircraft ammunition, her planes were out of action, one turret gone, her whole hull was bruised and weary from steady punishment...
...matter how price control is administered, it works against the essential genius of U.S. industry, inspired by the profit motive to produce more & more at a constant rise in wages and living standards. An economy with price controls is not really free enterprise at all-the vital forces of profits, competition and the free market cannot operate...
...theater offered free admission to patrons bringing four-leaf clovers. The day after Cedric printed the item, the theater turned away a 9,000 overflow, had only one cash customer. When he said a Minnesota serviceman in Alaska wanted a piano, Cedric got 19. Naturally he is in constant demand for charity drives, civic promotions, master of ceremonies' chores. And his commercial neighborliness earns him $54,000 a year...
Juan Gris, least-known artist of the four, was, with Picasso and Braque, a founder of Cubism, and remained, far more than they, a constant adherent of Cubistic methods until his death in 1927. Cold and monotonous at first glance, Gris' ascetically detached still-lifes reveal, upon longer acquaintance, an almost architectural formal structure, an ingenious flattening and simplification of natural forms, and a sure if quiet color sense...
Harvard's Astronomer Fred L. Whipple thought Diana might provide a test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo...