Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many of them, paying $1,750 for Ferdinand Roybet's "The Connoisseurs", $1,350 for a picture by Constant Troyon of a dog herding sheep. When the report of the sale appeared, certain supercilious people made bold to ask, "Since when have circus men been picture buyers...
Families. "The changes in family life can be due to such little things. Proper heating and proper lighting, a comfortable place for every member of the family may make a happy home. The constant interruption of the telephone, on the other hand, may bring about the complete disruption of the family."-Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of the National Board...
...result may by chance be as just. But the game is different. And throughout such political organization as the country possesses, there is a constant aversion among hardened campaigners to anything which could be called a system. The city machine, falsely so-called, is bound only by ties of self-interest to the party throughout the state; while a national party contains manifold units of unequal cohesion. The men who run politics take a fancy to leaving the door wide open for rebellion, usurpation, and insubordination. They work, as Mrs. Blair remarks not by program but by prowess. They have...
...wave length it pleased, other stations could do the same. Aerial chaos would result. So radio listeners with $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 invested in receiving sets waited for a court decision. More anxiously waited the radio manufacturers and broadcasters, who realized keenly that broadcasting must be constant over wave lengths and time...
...Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins...