Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testing at the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground, last week he was shifted to Washington, given charge of a new Ordnance section. The new section's province: tanks, other armored vehicles, and the all-important development of self-propelled "tank chasers" (mobile artillery which travels in constant readiness to fire from wheeled mounts...
...great admirer and constant reader of the TIME vocabulary. You may call me paunchy, chesty, necky, cheeky, eary, browy, even mouthy, but not "beaky...
...kept in service. To guard against counter-revolutionary movements within the Army, they were rigidly supervised by political officers. Every military order issued by an officer had to be counter-signed by his commissar before it could be carried out. In practice this came to mean constant civilian interference, and endless argument instead of action in crisis...
This means that the rank of each community, multiplied by its size, is a constant. It also means that when these relationships are expressed in a graph, the resulting "curve" approximates a straight line. This discovery is not a mathematical trick. Zipf has found that the same strange relationship among towns also prevails in many other countries and at other historical periods...
...CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES -John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Murder and suicide in Scotland over money difficulties. Weapons: dry ice and "The Doom of the Campbells," a copiously flowing whiskey. Wheezy, stumping Dr. Fell effects justice, not without some villainy of his own. Good as they come...