Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aluminum story may or may not have been of front page importance. The fact is a matter of judgment. Nevertheless, the evident alignment of the Democratic papers on the positive side of this proposition and of the Republican on the negative, suggests that one of the constant elements in such journalistic judgment is partisanship. Either the one side was touting a triviality or the other was suppressing a significance...
Popular control of governmental bureaucrats is a democratic essential only to be secured by constant vigilance. Investigations are the price of that modern luxury, self-government...
Last week the Manhattan Merchants' Association stepped into the clear; advocated a constant Easter; stated in a bulletin that the second Sunday in April "will be" the date it believes will be adopted; said further: "A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. Clergymen were vexed...
Pride is the historical constant of the United States Senate. All generation of Senators from Clay and Webster, through Douglas and Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...
...would make their memorial a church--a church controlled by no sect; a church in which the purest and highest life of the University shall find expression: a church in which the names and the records of these Harvard soldiers may be to all who enter if a memory constant and ennobling...