Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans find the Boongs a constant source of wonder for their childlike good nature and shiny black skins, as well as for their highly developed bushcraft. (One private stared at an Abo in amazement, then said: "He's so black he's almost purple.") Boongs like to hang around soldiers' camps, where they get gifts of tobacco, flour and tea, and occasionally a profitable job of tracking...
Throughout the poems, in constant undertone and, more often than not, by indirection, Eliot writes of the timebound society he lives...
...British war energies depend upon the unfailing defense and adequate nourishment of our small island home which lies only 21 miles from German batteries and only a few minutes' flight from their airfields. Great Britain is the advanced fighting base of the United Nations and is still under constant siege and assault by air and sea. . . . If the Nazi villains drop upon us from the skies any night, in raid or heavy attack upon key production centers, you will make it clear to them that they have not alighted in the poultry run, or in the rabbit farm...
...been advised to love and care for our manuals, "regs", etc., since they will be our constant companions as long as we are in the service. We suspect more changes will arrive just as we finish making the ones we now have. But that shouldn't bother us, after all the Disbursing course is only telescoped to three-quarters normal time. Boy, was Sherman right, or was he right! And to complicate things a little more, there's another Harvard Naval Review coming up on the 27th...
...scholars who will work on these committees will study in a strange, student-empty atmosphere. They will not have the advantage of constant undergraduate contact or of such groups as the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure to give them the worm's perspective. There are a few broad outlines they might well remember. Departments, often made rigid by custom and habit, could be kept alive by frequent conferences, with new ideas actually sought after. The large problem of faculty appointments needs attention--getting the right man to teach the right course, getting the great scholars...