Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author- Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 37, divorced wife of one Edwin Pond Parker II, is half Jewish, half Scottish. She has worked on Vogue, Vanity Fair, is now the New Yorker's "Constant Reader." During the Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances she was arrested in Boston for "loitering and sauntering," paid a $5 fine...
...Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary of State...
...Division began to arrive on June 28. By the end of 1917 the A. E. F. numbered 174,884 officers and men. Their training presented a constant problem. General Pershing believed that the War could be won only by driving the enemy out of the trenches and engaging him in open warfare. He believed also that the French had acquired a "defensive complex" and, wedded to trench warfare, lacked the ability to teach the kind of open combat he wanted the A. E. F. to have. Therefore he resisted French instruction methods, insisted that all U. S. troops be drilled...
Precision is the bureau's prime purpose. Deep within an unshakable vault, where temperature and air pressure is constant, lies the master measuring stick of the U. S., a platinum bar one metre long. Bureau men know that it is one metre long because they measured with an eternal, invariable standard, the red light waves of cadmium...
...called "Legge shows" throughout the wheat-growing midWest. If at these performances any farmers expected to see chorus girls, hear jazz tunes, guffaw at wisecracks, they were disappointed. It was not that kind of show. Instead Chairman Legge would mount a bare platform and make a speech. His constant theme: Cut wheat acreage by 20%. But when the farmers got home at night, they were more likely to remember Mr. Legge's clenched fists, his red, sweating face, his "hells," and "damns" than his plain-as-a-pikestaff argument that, with world prices down, U. S. wheat production...