Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as Dunbar's "History of Banking" and Bragehot's "Lombard Street" are especially useful for they are applicable year after year. Standard textbooks on business, problem books by members of the Faculty, and similar publications are frequently added to the collection. The rapidity of business changes and the constant stream of new developments, however, soon make many of these volumes out of date for the inquirer who is making any intensive study of some phases of business...
...Merite Agricole". Somewhat to the consternation of the Ministry the number of applicants who have come forward with proofs is relatively overwhelming. Some families claim that they have won the award several times over. One peasant has presented proof that his ancestors have remained possessors and in constant occupation of the same piece of land since 1023; which would give him a lineage going back to the time of the second of the Capets, rivalling the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry II, in Germany and having a generation's headstart on William the Conqueror...
...circular letter sent out by the University Appointment Office to all members of the senior class urges, "men who have any athletic ability or interests, and scholarship enough to warrant them in undertaking to teach others, to consult the Office". There is a constant demand for college graduates as teachers in private and public schools--a demand which, under the present conditions, it is impossible to fill. More and more boys are going to school and college, but fewer and fewer men are appearing to teach them...
...important part. In the ordinary drama one would expect the dashing opera singer to be the wily and passionate vampire who steals the affections of the married and conservative hero and breaks up his peaceful home, until his quiet and domestic wife finally wins her husband back by her constant faith and love. But not so in "Enter Madame". Here we have just the reverse situation...
...this is very promising but it is not unlike lighting a fire with flint and steel because the matches are in the next room. The increase in participants in athletics is undoubtedly desirable but it is equally possible under the present system. In 1876 there were constant appeals for more candidates for crew because a winning eight was impossible with only fourteen candidates. Last spring crew drew over a hundred and fifty upper classmen: and the other major sports vary from fifty upward. The trouble is not with them for they care for their share already...