Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lest it somehow be dimmed by unexpected reform, the U.P.'s reputation for pinching the penny is affectionately kept alive by an ever-expanding organization of U.P. alumni called The Downhold Club -an echo of the constant warnings to "downhold" expenses that emanate from U.P.'s headquarters in the New York Daily News building...
...Double. Acting on his orders, Southern orators zeroed in on the jury-trial gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
There is a second reason for expansion, totally unrelated to any idealistic duty, which Dean Bundy hastens to point out to anyone who may consider expansion a radical or extraordinary proposition. The college, he says, has a natural tendency to grow in harmony with the constant growth in human knowledge. College faculties are continually expanding to incorporate new fields of study, and a rise in student enrollment to meet this expansion is only natural. Such a process of gradual growth has been going on at Harvard for some time and will undoubtedly proceed for many years to come...
While European students generally get by without constant grading, grade consciousness is instilled in the American youth all through school, culminating in a terrific batery of tests his last year in school. It is felt that this grade emphasis stimulates much of the learning in American education...
These colleges have demonstrated that an American college student is capable of excellent work without constant pressure from grades. However, even the fine records of their graduates, in academic pursuits and elsewhere, do not themselves show that the plans would work for large numbers of students...