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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characterization of the Harvard Law School as an internationally acknowledged school of its type has suffered from such constant repetition as to make the statement almost platitudinous. Yet there has hardly ever been a more remarkable expression of its universality than is contained in the terms of the Pugsley gift of $400,000 which was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM EVERY NATION | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...which faced the Wolverines and the chances are that it will stay that way for the last two games. Mays and White are working out daily with the first team and although neither will be in the starting eleven, both will be kept on the side-lines as a constant threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONGEST TEAM WILL FACE PURPLE | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...score, threw his big lean body twice through the line and once round end for another, but gained only 94 yards and dropped the ball that gave Yale one of its two freak touchdowns. Hot and hurt (ankle) he left the field early. Booth stayed in, a constant threat, but it was a spry-sprinting substitute called "Hoot" Ellis who made the 80-yard dash that won the game. Yale 16, Dartmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Apparently those who live in glass houses, not content with a mere throwing of stones, have entered into a somewhat ragged game of catch with the big leagues. It is too early to predict the outcome of the contest, but the constant mention of money adds a taint of professionalism to the proceedings which cannot fall to arouse regret in the ranks of the amateur garden clubs involved. So far the hothouse gang seems to have the edge but the experts are talking knowingly about the dark horse pitcher held in reserve by the big league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR OF THE ROSES | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

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