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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite Dr. Arlie V. Bock's yearly disjoiner, intensive cramming just before an examination will often produce a much better mark for a quick-minded student than long hours earlier in the term. The fact that the Social Relations Department, in spite of expert knowledge in the field and constant experimentation, has been unable to approach perfection of method is an interesting proof of the difficulties of testing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

Niemöller's reason: "Hundreds of thousands yield under constant pressure to the temptation to wash their hands of guilt by any conceivable lie or distortion . . . and the newly sown seed of hatred has grown rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Old Flag | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...listened to a transcription of Aimee's own attractively earthy voice. In another, a collection of the founder's personal belongings was on exhibition, including her Bible and her drinking cup (for orange juice). The 5,300-seat auditorium and the many other rooms were in almost constant use for rallies, seminars, motion pictures, exhibits. The elevator operator, a leafy orchid in her hair, loudly hummed What a Friend We Have in Jesus. And everywhere ministers and delegates with convention buttons as big as flying saucers were meeting and greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Foursquare | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Unhappy Men | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Laffmovie is one of a chain of three, the other two being in Baltimore and New York. Since the founding in 1943 the policy has remained pretty constant, "the more custard pies per reel the better." There have been deviations into more sophisticated comedy of the "Topper" type, "but," says the Boston advertising manager, "the kids didn't get the hang of the double entendre," And so, since the giants of the deadpan and the thrown pie are no more, the theater sticks to the oldies. "There are very few good new ones," the Laffmovie's spokesman says sorrowfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

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