Word: constant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor stenographer mixed up in the affairs of wealthy men. The show is hardly one for the "tired business man"; it is one that demands your attention throughout, and the plot of it is so intricate, but also well worked out, that it keeps the audience in constant suspense as to how the love affairs of Marion Donnell will finally turn out. The pathos of the picture, although at times it borders on the usual movie sentimentalism, is enough to force the feminine part of the audience to bring out its handkerchiefs...
...credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate of the Kyoto Pan-Pacific Conference, gave the proposition the final effective push that put it over. KARL...
...Babson Break early in September) in which it had taken strychnine-injections to push quotations ahead. The September slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. 3) Most important of all, indications of a slowing tempo in U. S. industry. The motor stocks, for example, had long since fallen from their January highs?a forecast of slackening production in the latter portion of the year. Now steel mills...
...Elmer Ambrose Sperry Jr., who with his father, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, developed and perfected the stabilizer, brought the Ford to Long Island with three companions, the stabilizer had guided the ship for nearly 60 trial hours. It seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...
...eastern undergraduate need not become too self-laudatory in his new found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part of one's time to serious pursuits, then unstinted enthusiasm in football must decline...