Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitutional rights, the cases of Canada and Ireland may be the same, but in every practical sense they are widely different. Canada has a constant schedule of neighborly business to be transacted with Washington, to which Ireland has no parallel...
...family, and there was only one case of slightly impaired mentality. The only factor noted which might seem to be unusual was the high infant mortality rate, and it was Doctor Murphy's belief that the exceptionally high infant death rate might have resulted from the constant inbreeding...
Since the U. S. has always been a rapidly growing country in constant need of capital, the prevailing interest rates here have practically always been higher than those of the older and more static countries of Europe. Usually London, as the former financial centre of the world, has been able to maintain the lowest money rates, while New York rates have ruled far above...
...agreed that there are unusual doings up there. Last year, Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over the world about 4½ degrees F. If this heat loss should become only twice...
Soutter, winner of the Freshman cup, had little experience before entering Harvard, but as a result of constant practice during the winter and spring, he was able to place third in the pole vault against the Yale Freshmen this spring, thereby winning his numerals...