Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week unmanned balloons sent up 17½ mi. (a record) by Germany's Professor Erich Regener brought down evidence limiting Piccard's observation that the intensity of cosmic rays increases steadily with altitude. Above 39,000 ft. the intensity tends to become constant...
...would suppose that Senator McKellar of Tennessee would be greatly interested in every measure designed to improve the purchasing power of the outer world, that his chief and his constant concern would be the restoration of the world economy. But not at all. Senator McKellar's notion of how to serve the people of Tennessee is to treat their customers as if they were brigands. And to what end? That the United States Treasury should continue to exact from their customers payments which, if not received, must be borne by the taxpayers of the United States...
...electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely between two contact planes, the terminals of a constant potential generating system...
...muse over the scenes behind the foreboding Romanesque walls of grey stone when she was Chicago's No. 1 Hostess, serving meals off gold plates, discussing her favorite subjects of art, astrology, numerology, "synthetic psychology." Mrs. McCormick is not left lonely in her adversity. Mr. Krenn is as constant a companion as ever although until Mrs. McCormick recovers her health they will not be seen as of old in the neighborhood cinema, where they sat always in the back row, or at the theatre, chatting in German. Mrs. McCormick's brother, John D. Jr., recently rushed to Chicago...
...have been a fairly constant reader of TIME for the past three years. During that time the one fault I 'have found with your otherwise excellent publication is a tendency to be politically biased in the narrating of news...