Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working on the theory that "it takes a snoop to catch a jiggle," SEC has 1,100 employees watching all market operations, keeping a constant check on the ticker tape, looking for any unusual buying or selling. (In Manhattan, SEC's tape watcher is an old pool operator of the '20s who knows all the tricks.) If SEC smells something suspicious, it questions the traders, the officials of the company and, if need be, follows up with subpoenas and injunctions. Stock Exchange members, who once bitterly hated the reforming SEC, have learned to live with...
...semiautomatics goes on for long periods against a background of mortars, howitzers and heavier guns, as the Arab Legion works over the Jewish positions outside the Old City. When we arrived, the Jews inside the Old City were confined within an area of about 800 square yards, undergoing a constant pounding but replying constantly with semi-automatic fire. Their main vantage points were two synagogues...
Though my English is far from perfect, I am a constant reader of your magazine...
...Wolverhampton, England, Dr. J. H. Sheldon, director of medicine in the Royal Hospital, made a survey of 477 old people in the community, reported that old men are either in very bad health or very good health for their age, and fairly constant about it, while aging women showed a steady reduction in general health...
...forgetful, confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...