Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine has 24 cylinders ar ranged in four banks like a double-V. Supercharged and built for streamlining into wings and fuselages, it develops 2,400 h.p., weighs less than a pound per horse power.† Its constant-speed propeller, largest ever built in the U. S., is geared to revolve at lower speed than the engine (because propellers lose efficiency at high speeds). Probable use of the new powerplant: to propel bombers faster than bombers have ever been driven before...
...constant reader and admirer of TIME, I feel impelled to express my surprise and disappointment that an account of recent events connected with the Philadelphia Orchestra should have been as unfair as that which appeared in TIME...
...rank as a member of the course is all that matters. A distribution curve based on long experience is worked out before the course starts, and by his rank each student is fitted into his rightful place on that curve. Hence the continuity of the course average is kept constant from year to year. To preclude any variation of marking among the section men, the instructors do not grade merely the papers of the men in their own section, but grade a single question in each of the blue books. Hence coordination of marking is maximized, and there...
...realize I am sure that throughout the world hundreds of millions of human beings are living today in constant fear of a new war or even a series of wars...
According to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, Japan's Cabinet finally concluded last week that "overwhelming military victories" were insufficient to offset the constant flow of foreign money and materiel into China. In the near future they will: 1) enlist the active assistance of Germany and Italy in bringing "diplomatic pressure" against U. S., French, British and Russian aid to China; 2) sharply curtail the interests of those four nations within China...