Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much in vogue here; and rightly; by them, as by no other method, can an immediacy of view be obtained. Yet the permanence of a liberal curriculum can be assured only by the quality of the permanent faculty. No annual turnover, even of high-class instruction, replaces the constant inspiration of able teachers who have become adjusted to the University, and whose understanding of the purpose of such study is supplemented by their competence to supervise...
...expresses his theory mathematically on a graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...
...their supplies were carried in sacks; cans weighed too much, took up too much room. Their collapsible canvas boats were always being punctured by rocks in the rapids of the Kuluseu, but came in handy when they reached the Xingu, tributary of the Amazon. Flies were their constant companions: borochudas, which leave a blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down...
...were usually called in the early days) and (after 1722) professors; another table for the masters; and another table for the 'scholars' (that is, undergraduates). In 1666 it was ordered that 'such as are fellows of the Colledge, & have sallaryes payd them out of the Treasury, shall have their constant Residence in the Colledge, and shall Lodge therein & be present with the Schollars at meall times in the Hall...
...Congress or a national committee organized with headlines in the Monday papers for the purpose of discovering whether, in this new era, two and two may not make five. But such things as laws and institutions, methods of production, available natural resources, number and distribution of population, are in constant state of flux, so that the economist's task is never done. His materials must ever be collected anew, and his work ever repeated; the economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking...