Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic or cosmetic reasons. Miss Robin's reason for wearing the lenses last week was to accommodate the New York optometrists. She was in constant fear that the glasses might break on her eyes...
...Moscow station, with 100-kilowatt power, outranks in potency any in the U. S., broadcasts Communist propaganda in German, English, French, Swedish, Polish and Rumanian which can be heard in all those countries-though but faintly in England. Rumania alone, being in constant fear of a Soviet attack to recover Bessarabia (which Rumania seized from Russia after the War), has installed an anti-Red broadcasting station. Whenever watchful officials of this station hear Moscow broadcasting in Rumanian they turn loose their own station on the same wave length and go BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...
...Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life of storm and longings, of constant metaphysical and religious crises, it is scattered through my writings...
...well nourished adult on a complete fast loses from 28 to 35 oz. weight daily. That is about 1% or 1 1/2% of total body weight. This loss continues almost constant for eight days. Then the average daily loss becomes smaller. Death occurs when from 35% to 40% of original weight has been sacrificed. Loss of weight seems to be fairly independent of the water intake. It is a fact that a fasting person demands less water than a person on a regular diet. Such a person rarely takes more than a pint (two tumblersful) of water...
...means found efficacious in keeping awake while motoring is to keep one foot off the floor. The probable explanation, is that the strained position forces constant attention, and wakefulness...