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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constant readers of your valuable magazine, and each week welcome it with greater delight. I beg, however, to correct a statement your issue of Jan. 2, under MILESTONES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...more, opera or concert singing, she replied, "I have no preference. I enjoy my work, no matter in what role I am performing or in what branch of the art I am participating. I enjoy seeing the crowds and never tire of meeting people. Consequently my work is a constant source of enjoyment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Talley Recommends Diligent Toil for Gifted Opera Aspirants-European Vocal Tutelage Surpasses American | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Thus man's experimenting swerves back over old trails. More than 400 years ago Leonardo da Vinci, great artist, scientist, wished to fly. That seems to have been the one constant wish throughout his long & lively life-to fly. He knew of course nothing about modern motive power, although he did make some contraptions to operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Albatross-wise | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...cruel delicacy for the current theatre. With amazing daring, Mr. Kelly has written of two people in whom daring had died. The thoughtful, courageous quality of his attempt is scarcely obscured by deficiencies in his result. Passages of perilously rich writing intrude; clarity of concept is not constant. Yet the play, provocative, never bores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...futility of the suggesting placard and the dark and glowering glance has been proven again by the breaking out of another epidemic of cooperative study in the Reading Room of the Library. Two heads are not better than one when a constant flow of whispers pours from them and disturbs their neighbors. The cause of education is rendered an incessant lip service by these individuals, who are innocent of the knowledge that this method survives in the secondary schools of China, but has a place only in the elementary division of American schooling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOSTER-CHILD OF SILENCE | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

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