Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold has also demonstrated the possibility that dark regions on the moon are great dust layers, rather than massive flows of lava and has advanced an explanation of their origin. These dust clouds could have been formed, he said, by the constant bombardment of meteors pulverizing the surface...
...Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a "constant divisor" which they adjust to account for stock splits. Currently, the divisor stands at 4.566, meaning that each point in the average is equal to $1 divided by 4.566, or about 22?. Thus, a 6-point jump is only about $1.32 in actual dollar value, a fact some amateurs learn...
...aside in time, realizing Nakaya could or would not tell us how to combat the stuff. Other pamphlets and books yielded nothing helpful, until we ran onto "Report on the Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y., 1917." "Continuous snow fighting will require the systematic and constant use of the sewers on the main streets." There it was. One sometimes knows instinctively when a thing is right. We knew the sewers would be the answer, if Cambridge would try them...
...major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner for the opposition in the locust years since 1951, he has made constant use of his mastery of repartee in Parliament (as well as on the stage of Sanders...
...forms," Miró recounts. "What had started out to be a vegetable form would be distorted in a way that made me think of a face. I would add a nose and a bit here and there, and it would turn into a human figure . . . there was a constant metamorphosis...