Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...
...Filene, who is well known as a merchant in the vicinity of Boston, has exerted considerable influence in promoting friendly business relations between the United States and foreign countries, and has been greatly interested in international affairs of a more general nature. He has been a firm and constant believer in the necessity of American participation in European affairs. He believes that a policy of continued isolation cannot be maintained and that the United States must directly share in the difficult work of political and economic reconstruction. He believes that the United States must cooperate with the other nations...
...Commercialism, overemphasis, stadiamania -- football, a contributory cause to the existence of American universities, labored under the constant application of these terms but a few months ago. And then undergraduates at Harvard, originators of much that is worthy in American academic life, gave the public cause to hope that football would be restored to its rightful place. The standards of value in university life were to be set aright by direct action from Cambridge...
...comparatively late stage and is likely to be regarded as an extraordinary hardship. As a result many a boy finds himself on the last lap of what is supposed to be his education without ever having learned to study. Regardless of all other factors, there is a pretty constant ratio between attainment and application, and until the American boy begins seriously to exert himself from an earlier age it is not likely that any other reforms will greatly affect the age of his intellectual maturity--Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...party organ this policy materially impairs it in exercise of a public purpose, the dissemination of fact news among the people. The unheralded entrance of partisanship into news columns, subjects the less discerning reader to a most powerful and intangible mode of convincing namely, tabloid indication and constant veiled repetition of a doctrine, an insinuation, or an attitude...