Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harriette left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that...
Money- The task of a university president is largely one of husbandry. The faculty supervises the breeding of strong academic stock. Rich friends and alumni see that stock is materially nourished. The president, however, must exercise constant broad vigilance lest the flock's young and the flock's runts be driven from the trough and starve. Surveying James Rowland Angell's 15 years in the President's office in Woodbridge Hall, the most acquisitive Yale alumnus cannot quibble at the tremendous wealth that has fallen to Yale. Since taking office. President Angell has doubled...
Yale's few days at Gales Ferry have been marked by illness, ineligibility and constant changes in the seating, facts which have given confidence to the Harvard oarsmen. Captain Castle did not row either on yesterday or today, because of illness...
...books every year and another $17,000 for binding pamphlets, leafiest, catalogues, etc., and for re-binding worn out volumes. Of the total income of over a quarter million dollars, the University collects nickel fines from students to the extent of about $400 every year. It also has a constant expenditure for gas of $.53 encoded in this $341,000 budget...
...marvelous strides"), his involvement in a robbery and a murder, which he believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...