Word: constant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...characteristic feature of the present war is the constant change in methods of fighting. New weapons are used; then new ways to oppose them must be devised. A more efficient defense leads to an improvement in the attack. Numerous developments take place within a month. Although the forces are still too even to end the "war of positions," yet they are altering many details...
...True sense of humor goes as far beyond this definition as solid geometry beyond plain arithmetic. It consists not only in perceiving the comic, but in searching for it, and at times even creating at. Above all it deals less with the occasional laugh than it does with the constant smile...
...fate of the hero of Captain Bjornstadt's novel, which was so eagerly devoured by the literature lovers of last year's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, has kept many of our military students in constant trepidation. Sergeant Hill, when last encountered, was still leading Quinn and Peterson on a desperate patrol toward the lines of the hostile Blues. With the skill of a Peo, Bjornstadt brought his hero into action and with bullets whizzing about him left this second Roland to his fate. What happened to Sergeant Hill? Even Captain Hamlin, Chief of Sections, was unable to answer this mystifying...
...Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., has lately been commissioned a major and is working at the Army War College in Washington where he went at the end of last June...
...conclusion of the CRIMSON'S volume for the collegiate year demands a short word of explanation. In its editorial columns throughout the year a wider range of topics has received attention than has been the custom of past years. In spite of such range the constant policy has been to interpret events from the view of the college man, and if not to interpret to discuss, and if not to discuss to question...