Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landing gear. Of low-wing sport type, the plane has a small auxiliary wing mounted in the fore of the fuselage which, by stalling earlier than the main wing, reduces the chances of complete involuntary stalling and spinning. The third wheel, mounted beneath the nose, places the ship in constant flying position, also prevents nosing over...
...university that gave them that training loses not only the natural talent of its sons but loses also the results of its own labor in educating and teaching them. The situation is growing worse every year. Not a department, not a division but has been decimated by the constant striving of other universities to obtain for their staffs the best material in the educational world. Those that have not already suffered view the future with alarm, for they know that the day is not far distant when bids will be made for the services of their leaders. The continuation...
...easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions is so constant, competitive and exciting among artists and critics that it amounts to a perpetual esthetic parlor game. Defined John Ruskin: "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together." "Art," hazards John Galsworthy, "is that imaginative expression of human energy, which through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting...
...have now before us not only definite objective, but a concrete method of getting at it ... something to work on, to get our teeth into. . . . President Hoover laid his finger upon the best method. . . . Hard work and constant vigilance . . . will translate good intentions into practical realities...
...committee was larger than the Williams case. Assistant Secretary Ingalls denied that the U. S. was behind other powers in fast combat planes, though the Navy has been experimenting steadily with aircraft, seeking to develop a combination of endurance and reliability with speed. Lack of funds has been a constant handicap. The Navy's request for $3,000,000 to carry on aircraft development has been cut down to $2,000,000 per year for three successive years. In 1929 the Navy's air fleet was given $32,089,000. This year...