Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduates may snort at this addition to Harvard Square diversions, and point out that the subway and Boston were plenty good enough for them, but it can be urged in defense that their undergraduate lives were not spent in a constant retreat from automobiles. They needed no relaxation. One feels, especially after the daily, narrow escape, that Harvard Square seems to be getting rather out of bend anyway...
...Orleans, delegates to the American Railway Association's annual convention last week discussed the use of radio communication in their business. It will soon be introduced on freight and passenger trains to establish constant communication between the conductor and brakemen, and the engineer. The present methods are steam valve signals (on passenger trains), and arm-waving from freight cabooses...
...violated the spirit (if not the letter) of the Sherman law. It was asserted that the masters of steel unofficially, yet none the less efficiently, regulated the whole industry over Judge Gary's coffee and cigars. The Judge was compelled to select his dinner-guests thereafter with a constant eye on the newspaper reporters...
...there were 533 memberships which were increased in that year by admitting "The Government Bond Board" (173 seats) and "The Open Board of Brokers" (354) ; making 1,060. When 40 new members completed the total which has remained constant for 44 years, they were knicknamed "The Forty Thieves." A man who paid tne then fabulous price of $15,000 for his seat, was dubbed "King of The Forty Thieves...
...part of the police powers will be substantially all wasted in an effort to enforce the law if there does not exist a strong and vigorous determination on the part of the people to observe the law. . . . Mr. Coolidge concluded with the words: "It is only by a constant renewal and extension of our faith, that we can expect to enlarge and improve the moral and spiritual life of the nation. Without that faith all that we have of an enlightened civilization cannot endure...