Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anomaly: Dryden, the greatest of English neo-classic writers has excelled himself as a lyric poet; and further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
...through an interview with one of its collaborators. A liberal professor of economics at Columbia University, 41-year-old Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell is a member of the "Brain Trust" which helped to steer Mr. Roosevelt through the campaign to the election. Since then Dr. Tugwell has been in constant, confidential communion with the President-elect. Though he spoke only for himself, Dr. Tugwell was presumably giving an authoritative reflection of the Roosevelt mind when he set forth and commented on a seven-point program for recovery after March...
...Lion Dog from within the walls of the Forbidden City, was the "Death by 10,000 Slices" or some other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose...
...conspiracy to arouse the sense of wonder it may be reasonably objected that men who make no pretense of being educated have a large capacity for wonder. To the man in the street, the man in the office and the man in the shop life is a constant struggle among wonders, many of which induce the profoundest misgivings. "A man is educated if he has been led to feel that things may not be as they seem," Mr. Demos observes. During this period of heart-searching and apprehension most men are being educated in that sense...
Editorial candidates, under the guidance of members of the board, will have an opportunity to express their ideas on all subjects of University or outside interest. Through the aid of constant criticism, their style and the clarity of their writing will improve rapidly. Like news candidates, they will become familiar with the devious workings of the University and the various educational and financial problems which confront...