Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many suggestions; but the only war memorials to Harvard men at present established, are from individuals, the Victor Chapman and the Fiske Fellowships, the Webster scholarship, and the Farnsworth Room. The Sargent paintings, placed where Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, are passing by hundreds every day, stand as a constant and striking reminder of how much the University's living owe to the sacrifices of its dead...
...glad to see "The Measure". Its poetry has no moaning pseudo-intellectuality about it--and the quarterly change of editorship assures it that constant freshness without which all poetry might as well go hang itself. The October number is especially interesting because of contributions by Malcolm Vaughan and Royall Snow both recent Harvard graduates...
...spoke of the constant effort that is being made by economists and statisticians both inside and outside the System, to keep track of production, of the activity of business, of the general price level, and of credit conditions, with the view of giving such timely notice as will tend to check inflation, and of utilizing the facilities of the System to abate the inevitable rigors of deflation. He expressed the hope that business men will in the future make increasing use of the monthly bulletins issued by the Federal Reserve Board and by the regional banks, watch carefully the reserve...
...often and so casually that it becomes a commonplace. And infinity is far more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving away from us 150 miles every second. By the time the Dudley Street...
...much the same question might be asked about the University's alumni. What is there to draw graduates, busy men of affairs with no official connection with Harvard, as overseers, professors or members of the Corporation, not only to Class Day, but to meetings all over the country, to constant correspondence and discussion of University affairs? The answer is to be found only in a realization of what Harvard means...