Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos." He cited specific examples from recent dialogues between principle and expediency (for "expediency" many of his listeners read Democrats...
...Simple Solution. As a forceful and outspoken member of Kenya's legislative council, he was a constant thorn in the side of Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
...President a bill to set up a National Library of Medicine within the U.S. Public Health Service. It will replace the Armed Forces Medical Library, probably the world's most valuable, now housed in a decrepit building on Independence Avenue, where its treasured archives are in constant danger from leaky roofs and fire...
Like all great ships of the past, from the Greek trireme to the Yankee clipper, the supertanker was launched to meet a specific demand at a specific time. Supertankers have not only kept a vast and constant stream of oil flowing from the Middle East and South America...
...parts to say so, but Biggs is far from the last word in organ playing. He approaches almost all pieces in the same way, and they come out with a universally choppy, detached phrasing. Muddy playing is a grievous sin; but Biggs goes to the other extreme with his constant staccato jabbing. It grates on the nerves, and after about 15 minutes I was yearning for some sustained chords and some smoothly flowing lines. He also often attacks the keyboard from such a height that he strikes neighboring notes...