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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still talks about his operation. It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...same men who broke the jaywalking rule in front of the Coop last week. These three desperate characters have left a trail of broken banks and stacked decks after only a fortnight of gaming. Liggett N. Myers '50, consistent loser to the shadowy group, blamed his setbacks on the constant ape-like chatter and periscope eyes of the lanky ensemble...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Baizy Gamesters Undaunted As Gendarmerie Takes Over | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...Modern Language Center, under the direction of Professor G. W. Sherburn comprises the third major collateral organization. Although students are required to have a thorough speaking knowledge of English before they enroll, discussion with language-teaching faculty members and other students at the Center are of constant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Holds Representatives From 65 Nations | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...road cuts across the foreground of most of Hopper's paintings. Sometimes it becomes a city street, or a railroad embankment, or a porch step, but it is there-a constant reminder of transience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Traveling Man | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Jinnah now lives in lonely splendor at Government House in Karachi. Frosty and aloof as ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Life on a Throne | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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