Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his first public dig at a Hoover policy. In his daily syndicate article, Citizen Coolidge wrote: "The report that the Tariff Commission is about to start investigations of a wide variety of commodities will not give much encouragement to business. ... A very bad tariff would be better than constant agitation, uncertainty, foreign animosity and change. . . . Hope for a purely scientific tariff will prove a delusion. Any prolonged investigations, covering many schedules for the purpose of rewriting the law, will do more harm than good. Many will be injured while none will be satisfied. And the country will...
...crowd of 45,000 people and personages had been treated to what Hitchcock again described as the "hardest" game he had ever participated in (TIME, Sept. 15). Even if you were unable to understand the strategy of a game that to the layman appears a game of imperfection, of constant trying and missing, two events of the afternoon afforded the sort of thrill that brings most people out to watch auto races...
...will, when convinced that the effort is worth while, exert your-selves to the utmost. A member of an athletic team will play his heart out to win. You will burn the midnight oil feverishly to pass an examination. But the constant, daily toil is more exacting. You may temporarily lose sight of the incentive; you may be diverted by pleasanter things. Your first problem, then, and it is yours alone, is to convince yourselves that steady application is worth while...
...shack at Lowell House while in the process of being built gave the Vagabond some idea of the extent and annoyance of noise. Of course that was only in the day time, but even then there was considerable disturbance. On the uninviting shores of Massachusetts Avenue with its constant stream of rather noisy commerce the situation assumes Gargantuan proportions, but that remains in the future...
...Some of the more conventional resolutions said: Religious standards must control international affairs: "We recognize in the modern discoveries of science . . . veritable gifts of God"; "the ruling of one race [i. e. India] by another can only be justified when the highest welfare of the subject race is the constant aim of the government"; "nobody should be excluded from worship in any church on account of color or race...