Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These canals, and the age-old necessity of keeping them well dug and free of snags, played a large part in introducing the democratic way to Europe, for from earliest times they made each Flemish peasant dependent on his neighbor. In the same way, the constant need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow...
...hastily rented house next door, it soon took on the look of an 18th century slave ship. Asylum seekers, including 60 squalling babies, sprawled on mattresses spread in halls, offices and reception rooms. There was no privacy; on the stairs, people slept, read, quarreled or flirted, oblivious to the constant traffic. Long queues stretched back from the four bathrooms...
...Gates reported, during 1918's battle of Soissons: "I have only two men left out of my company and 20 out of other companies. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here, as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most of his clothes were torn off; but clad chiefly...
Booked Until September. From his great paneled office in the Administration Building, Compton ran his campus with a firm but informal hand. He turned out some 300 articles on everything from thermionics to spectroscopy, helped found the American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton (who won the Nobel Prize and became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis), brother Wilson Martindale Compton (who served as president of the State College of Washington), and sister Mary (who married the president of Allahabad University in India). Profoundly patriotic, he was a constant commuter to Washington, served...
...their concert grands, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. Theodore E. Steinway gives constant proof that out of great tension may come rich harmony." Edward R. Murrow.......LL.D...