Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman." It was vital to observe last week how blunt-how surcharged with what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents...
...last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know...
Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, the former Princess Nina Mdivani, Spiritualist Denis Conan Doyle confided to Manhattan newshawks that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed...
...study and adjustment of man and his environment has been a constant albeit changing interest throughout the ages. From Aristotle to St. Thomas and from Rousseau to Nietzche, the conception of the ideal relationship between man and his environment no less than that of the environment itself, has been in a state of flux. Now however, the great increase of knowledge of the pathology of the mind has made possible individual prescription as well as the general precept. Research is being made into all the complexities of men as a social animal, notably at the Yale Institute of Human Relations...