Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politicians. Politically, the President will have the constant counsel of his longtime colleague in the Democratic organization-National Chairman Hannegan. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last year, it was Hannegan who lined up the big-city machines to snatch the Vice Presidential nomination away from Henry Wallace and his chief sponsor, P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman...
...movies rarely pay attention to. The life history of the subtle German and the sanguine Englishman culminates in a beautiful study of two kinds of old age: one seasoned through suffering, the other invincibly innocent. Long as it is, Blimp seems short, for it is done with a constant feeling for lightness and for style, and it is wonderfully well acted...
Grasshoppers and Cantaloupes. In a constant search for new microscopic workers, industrial, university and Government researchers have isolated over 200,000 varieties. Useful microbes may turn up anywhere-in the air, on the water, on forest leaf mold, in city garbage cans. A potent industrial bacillus was discovered in the intestines of a grasshopper. The best strain of the mold Penicillium notatum, which makes life-saving penicillin, was first noticed on a cantaloupe rind...
...Give every pilot in the air constant, automatic reports of his own position and those of approaching planes, warn him of his approach to mountains and other potential collision dangers...
...sinking in the Atlantic last summer of the S.S. Robin Goodfellow cost the University, according to the report, one-fifth of a year's photographic plates from the observatory at Bloemfortein, South Africa, which maintains a constant photo coverage of the southern skies. This was the first shipment of plates risked in two years from great quantities at Bloemfortein awaiting transfer to Harvard for analysis...