Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election, were efficiently making sure that the Jan. 19 election would not be fair. Not a single member of Miko's Peasant Party was named to any of the 52 district committees which will supervise the voting. The Peasant Party's newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa, was crippled by constant arrests among its staff members (among the first to go was its chief crime reporter...
...expensive piece-meal movement of a greatly improved Boyden station from Peru to the climatically far superior terrain in the high veldt of Orange Free State, South Africa. Here six telescopes are in constant use, systematically photographing the Southern skies...
Department of government have always been focal points for tension and fluidity within academic institutions. The genuine need for alertness to new trends, the constant demand for viewpoints that are tuned to the minute have made this field one of the most difficult to teach and administer. A government department, as a unit, must never cease its labors lest it fall behind its dynamic subject. At Harvard, not only the subject matter but the tremendous numbers of new concentrators have strained the ingenuity of members of the department...
...siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He commanded a battery of guns at the Fourth Bastion, most exposed point in the city's defenses. Tolstoy wrote the first of his Sevastopol Sketches in a dugout under bombardment. At first he liked the whole thing: "The constant charm of danger, observing the soldiers . . . are so agreeable that I do not wish to leave here. . . ." But before the siege was over he changed his mind. Though he hated physical violence, he beat his soldiers in fits of irritation, and they said they had never known his like for cursing...
Expanding its program to include forums and operettas for settlement house audiences, the newly-formed Phillips Brooks House Speakers Committee issued an appeal yesterday to all entertainers and speakers to join its ranks and help meet the constant demands for entertainment of all kinds...