Word: constant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mere publicity cannot be objected to. But the publicity, whether it is in move form, orange-covered novels or newspaper headlines, makes a never-ending stream of unconscious propaganda. It is the constant propaganda which has attached the word "collegiate" with "whoopee." It has given false connotations to every term in school usage...
...find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When the play began its run this break was not possible. Constant performance, however, has made it necessary for us to avoid listening to the thoughts, and concentrate on the main speeches...
...increase in population, sugar consumption has steadily increased at an average annual rate of about 7%. While production soared much swifter than that for a few years, there is no indication that it will increase much above the present figure. For these reasons of increasing demand and a constant supply, the price trend should be upward and only a slightly higher price can bring much greater returns to the growers. It is estimated that an increase of .0025 in the present price (about .0193 in Cuba; .0230 in the U. S.) would be enough to bring...
...that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian* order and making them ready to dare all for Christ's sake...
From the heroically borne ordeals of Job to the wretched suicide of Anna Karenina, the great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died...