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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team a little more than a quarter to start scoring; then they piled up points with amazing versatility. A field goal, a safety and two touchdowns put them so far in front that Michigan was never really in the ball game. Elusive and powerful, Cassady was a constant irritant to the outplayed Wolverines. Result: the Big Ten finished its season with some fine collegiate fisticuffs, for the Wolverines seemed to figure that, as long as they were beaten, they might as well beat up the enemy. In the final few minutes, the football almost disappeared under a pile of penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 511 for Ohio | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...there are traffic regulations, neither cops nor drivers heed them, nor do the pedestrians, who jaywalk and ignore traffic lights with grim fatalism. There is an incessant blowing of horns, but since all the horns sound alike (apparently having been made in the same factory), the result is a constant and unidentifiable shriek, except for horns on the cars of commissars which have a slightly varied pitch, at the first murmur of which the cops switch the manually operated traffic lights to green. Says U.S. Travel Expert John Stanton, just back from surveying the possibility of Cook's touring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: MOSCOW FOR THE TOURIST | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

When NBC put on last week's Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m.), it was doing more than merely telecasting a British farce starring Rex Harrison as an inconstant lover in The Constant Husband. For the first time in history, TV was giving the premiere of a feature film before the movie had been shown in any U.S. theater. Nobody is sure yet exactly where the experiment will lead, but at least three groups had reason to be pleased that it was being tried: the producers (London Films) got $200,000 for allowing the new film to be telecast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Experiment | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Moviegoers who pay to see The Constant Husband in a movie theater will still have an advantage: 20 minutes more of the picture and no commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Experiment | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...reply to the League official's charges, Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president of the University, denied that Harvard has withheld any cooperation from Cambridge planners. He said that he himself has been in constant touch with City Hall regarding development plans for both the city and the University, and that consequently the University does not need an official planning board at this time...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: University, MIT Accused Of Ignoring Cambridge | 11/17/1955 | See Source »

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