Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basketball tournament at the Palestra, some intense rivalries developed. The weaker teams like Barnard and Dartmouth were trounced by powerful Princeton and Yale, but continuous action and constant tension sparked the gymnasium crowd. In its third year, the hoop tourney was more exciting than in previous years because of an improved level of play and the increased competitiveness of various squads...
...departments in which TIME sorts out each week's news remain fairly constant, but when the need arises, we create a new one. In 1973, when the Arabs put an embargo on oil, TIME added a section called Energy, which monitored the fuel shortage, assessed its impact on the economy and explored long-range solutions. When it seemed that the nation was beginning to develop a policy to cope with the problem, the section was phased out, although our readers were kept abreast of every development in other departments, including Nation, Economy & Business and Environment. This week...
...COURSE, this is probably not a book that will reach a mass audience. Even back on Fire Island, where people usually take their hurricanes seriously, few people have read it. When I was quite a bit younger, "Thirty-eight" was a constant source of fascination for almost everyone in town. If you were among the younger set, your personal stock rose with your ability to tell hair-raising stories about what the Big Wind had done to your family's house. (I always came off the winner in contests like these, after repeating the probably apocryphal tale...
...course the potential for such as idealist life (I use idealistic both in the sense of "positive" and "ideal-based") could only have flourished with the encouragement of both an understanding family and a social and historical framework that made Weil's ideas and then actions--the constant testing of her will--seem worthy. Weil was blessed with both these supports; thus much of what now appears to be eccentricity sprang, in reality, from inspiring influences...
...data had to be "cooked". (See L. Kamin: The Science and Politics of I.Q., 1974.) For example, in three articles, published over an eleven year period, with a 150 per cent increase in sample size, Burt reported a correlation in I.Q. scores among identical twins reared apart that remained constant to three decimal places (.771). While any student who reported what Science in 1976 called a "strange imperturbability" in results would be suspected of cheating, Burt was awarded the highest prize of the American Psychological Association...