Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...
...doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also the startling Lady Mors, whose husband thought he was a firecracker and so lived in constant fear of going off. It was Lady Mors who had indirectly wrecked Joseph's chances as a wine merchant and so, by switching him to gardening, had brought him still more indirectly to the most momentous' day of his career: the opening of the annual show of the Royal Horticultural Society...
...lack of system, now in force permits the professor to make up his own reading list, take as long as he wants in doing so, and finally, to report his selections, verbally or in writing to such book stores as he sees fit. This is not all. Constant pressure on the members of the Faculty over a period of years has resulted in a large number of them either giving their lists exclusively to the Harvard Cooperative Society or sending that firm advance notice of the books to be used in their courses. By this means the Coop has been...
...That afternoon none other than Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...
...these days of atheism, Communism, Hitlerism, and all the other "isms," the Vagabond cannot but wonder at the fact that the sale of Bibles still far surpasses that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office...