Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical purposes the only apparent obstacle that prevents the extension of this privilege is the peremptory placard on the wall. In view of the fireproof construction of the building and the constant flare of Bunsen burners the plea that smoking will cause a fire lacks conviction...
...recent National Student-Faculty Conference held at the Book-Cadillac hotel here, considered, among other problems, the burning question of extra-curricular activities. The upshot of the discussion was that this phase of the college program demands constant adaptation to the great world of life outside the cameos, so that those activities duplicating communal institutions, such as, the press, art, and music, prevail over the non-vital projects found all too often in the academic sphere...
Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, who has changed from a young smalltown editor with a plumber's haircut into a classy-cut newspaper hero. No constructive legislator, he has made the Campaign Expenditures Committee, the chair of which fell to him by accident, into a vehicle for constant personal publicity. Married, he likes to dance in his off hours...
...diplomatic corps. He is suspicious of Washington Society. Once he thundered: "It is far simpler to agree than disagree in Washington. If there is an atmosphere in God's world that weakens a man's backbone it is the atmosphere of Washington. The diluting process is constant and drastic." An explanation by Mrs. Borah: "Billy would be so happy if it weren't for the pleasures of life." Because he did not think he was entitled to it, Senator Borah has refused to draw more than $7,500 of his $10,000 salary...
...Constant efforts are being made to help young people become acclimatized to strange and new conditions. The attempts made to ease the way after graduation are keeping pace with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing...