Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English A, the prospects become considerably brighter that this course may take its rightful place in the curriculum. The present changes are part of a long development in the direction of greater individual work and fewer organized recitations, which has been in the process of evolution under pressure of constant campaigns for reform...
...spite of constant protests from prominent educators, the college degree mania is slow to weaken. Its futility seems obvious enough, but "the obvious" is not always considered. Popular illusions are often stubbornly held. Not until many more pages have been devoted to the explanation of the fact will it be realized that men who could never succeed in learning are quite likely to succeed in life...
...Because of his enthusiasm, diversity of knowledge and fertility of thought, which are utilized by various colleges as a stimulation to old and young in diverse branches of knowledge, and are a constant inspiration at Harvard to students of our own and other lands...
PERHAPS the most valuable instrument in the hands of the historian is "time". It is easy to censure or to praise from the safe distance of four or five decades, whereas the contemporary critic is in constant danger of blemishing his own reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...Peace has been the constant object of Il Duce's policy: a political, social and economic peace among citizens, classes and groups, a religious peace and a peace among nations and states; a loyal and not a deceitful peace; an operating and not a static peace because it is aimed at preserving men and nations; a peace founded on truth. . . . [The agreement] represents a victory for no particular nation, but a victory for all the nations, a victory for equity and good sense, which is no less important in the relations between na- tions as in the relations between individuals...