Word: constant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because he used yellow paper for some of his editions of the New York World, and because his paper, avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for 'human interest.'" (TIME, May 27.) I think you are mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...
This vote was passed in an effort to make the practise with regard to examinations in graduate courses more uniform, and was designed primarily to affect research courses in which the ordinary final examination was not constant with the work of the course...
Douglas Fairbanks plays a game of his own invention called "Goose." Among his constant victims is Sid Grauman, Hollywood theatre owner. Last week when Mr. & Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) left Hollywood for Manhattan, Jokester Grauman hired Jo-Jo, a trained cinema goose whose accomplishments are worth $25 a day; dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque...
Saturday's races revealed the lack of endurance of both University crews occasioned by constant rough water in the Basin which greatly reduced the number of long, hard rows. As a result Coach Brown is now starting his men in earnest on the long grind in preparation for June...