Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters...
...suppose that if something were done, it would deprive the student body of a great diversion, but some day one of us is going to get hurt and then things will seem a great deal different. Meanwhile this corner remains a constant and serious menace to traffic, and stands as a shining example of the much touted protection that we are paying taxes for. DURYEA H. JONES...
...Passage to India." "The Constant Nymph." "The Green Hat," the biographies of Lytton Strachey, Shaw's "Saint Joan:" Mr. Walpose was many an instance to offer in evidence of the continued vitality of literature in England. Mr. Mencken dismisses each one with a contemptuous short. "I believe that Americans of the more reflective sort have had a dreadful lover does of such bilge...
Even the most delightful pleasures by constant repetition become so much a part of life that they often receive too little true appreciation. The readings which Professor Copeland has made so much a part of the happiest traditions of the University have, however, failed to suffer this fate--and for a rather obvious reason...
...such. Why should athletics be disinherited and thrown upon their own support for existence? Science and philosophy are not so treated. Surely this distinction is made because athletics have been looked upon as not constituting an integral part of the educational process. Under the present system coaches feel constant pressure to concentrate upon a few men in order to produce winning teams. Athletics have not been general enough to justify an endowment. As Mr. Arthur Howe, former Yale quarterback, pointed out at the Wesleyan conference, athletics have been conducted like professional sporting clubs, and consequently supported as such. We believe...