Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most of the western world as the lands he defended. But his two years of constant guerrilla warfare with the Germans had made one fact clear: in an area of decision, he was a man of decision...
Present use of the tube is limited to Army ordnance and is secret. But its future uses in the metal industries and in medicine are legion. The design includes some 180 sections, to provide constant accelerating steps of 12,000 volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they...
...With the constant support of the Red Cross and the National Research Council, Cohn's researches have been an integral part of the Navy's plasma fractionation program. Actually, they are the program, since the navy from the start vested complete authority in the technological and industrial fields in Professor Cohn. Cohn is never quoted, but his colleagues say that "the number of components that may be identified remains far greater than the number of fractions that it has been convenient to separate...
With the railroads bombed out, German units struggling northward had to rely on difficult mountain roads under constant guerrilla attack. German columns often zigzagged, swung now right, now left, were sometimes forced to retrace their steps to try another escape route. Others tried to filter northward in guerrilla fashion, through forests at night, occasionally donning civilian clothes...
...lush and prosperous, Europeans looked surprisingly healthy and well-fed. Much of the appearance was misleading. In Western Europe, the well-to-do had enough to eat. But among the poorer population, particularly in the city slums, there was not enough food. Nowhere did the liberators see starvation. But constant semi-starvation and diet deficiencies were leaving their mark on a whole European generation...