Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians, bewailing the money spent on armament while universities were in need...
That the brilliant red blood in the arteries is exactly the same as the dark blue blood of the veins, the difference in color being due to difference in gas content. That there is no to and fro undulation, but a constant circuit of blood from the heart, through the distant parts of the body, back to the heart...
...opening of the convention, the delegates were in a constant uprear but after a few minutes they quieted down, and the scene took on all the aspects of a National Convention
...wrote in The Nation last week. He discussed U. S. journalism, using the World as an example of how bad the best is: "The World on numerous occasions has been able to take two, three or even four different stands with precisely the same material in hand. So constant were the shifts during the Sacco-Vanzetti case that the paper seemed like an old car going up hill. In regard to Nicaragua the World has thundered on Thursdays and whispered on Monday mornings. Again and again the paper has managed to get a perfect full-nelson on some public problem...
...Such a book", Professor Ward said, "is in constant demand in almost all scientific work. Physicians, geologists, geographers, botanists, and geologists, to name a few, need climactic information continually in the different phases of their work...