Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piezo-electric standards of frequency which were also developed in the laboratory and have come into great importance commercially in the control of the wave lengths of radio transmitting stations. From the measurements of electron velocity Professor Chaffee and Miss Perry have obtained an accurate value of the physical constant e/m (charge divided by mass of electron). The value obtained is 1.761x107. An interesting fact is that this new value checks exactly a value previously computed from spectroscopic data; namely, 1.761x107--but departs markedly from the best previous experimental results 1.769, which were obtained by a magnetic deflection...
Said fiery Modernist Howe: "In America with its vast resources of natural and human energy in constant volcanic eruption, cities, factories, warehouses and elevators have been thrown up in towering accidental masses, as exciting as the Rocky Mountains and also as crude and little subject to esthetic control. In Europe, less disorderly but with no more discretion, most of the new districts can evoke no emotion but blank despair, and even Paris has been partially saved only by the pride of its dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern...
...methods of selecting students have come into use. Without lessening the worth of examinations for admission, there has arisen an increase in the appreciation of the personal character of the students themselves. Conferences between applicants for the freshman class and the dean or other officer have become more constant and searching. Some colleges are asking graduates to offer testimony regarding the availability of candidates. The colleges, too, are giving increased heed to the health of students, especially in respect to what is called mental health. No less than twenty-two institutions have established special facilities for getting and for evaluating...
...interesting to see, that, despite the constant outcry against anglicizing our American colleges and universities, one of our undergraduate journals is advocating the adoption of a plan which is but another of our heritages from England. Our educational system is, after all, derived from England; the Yale program is significant because it is indicative of our growing awareness as a nation that, after all, anglophobia is not all evil...
...Generals over a longer period, or abolishing entirely regular course work for honors candidates during the second half-year. More thought must be given to the relation of the tutorial system to the specialized thesis on the one hand and the broad General examinations on the other. Only by constant attention and improvement can the Division maintain the high standards in which it has been a pioneer...