Search Details

Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

This has been a constant source of astonishmen to Bunnie Hutchers. They never understood what strange enchantment drew people to Eliot and Lowell, and they never could detect the Leverett halitosis that seemed to drive freshmen away in flocks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Claims Good Staff, Beer Parties, and Vacancies | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...these combinations are in a constant state of flux, and as Coach Bolles re-shufiles the lineups almost daily, not too many conclusions can be drawn from the current situation. By spring vacation, however, he hopes to have sifted his hopefuls down to three boatloads...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Upstart Sophomores Dominate First Boat of Bolles' Crew | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...never felt he had quite finished his task. Until his death, he was tortured by the books still unwritten, "haunted by the things . . . left unsaid." Actually, he knew that his books, like his teaching, would probably provide the world with no pat solutions. They could only underline his constant faith in "keeping the windows open on the Beyond . . ." and a sort of decide-as-you-go "liberalism based on ... sad experience as well as on hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Decide as You Go | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson had goalie Burns under constant pressure, but could not smuggle a score past him until 1:30 of the second period. At this juncture, Tom Moseley and Myles Huntington swept down the ice on a two man rush, Moseley sucked both defensemen out of position and passed to Huntington in front of the cage...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Tops Defensive Eli Squad in Easy Game, 4-1 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...General Eisenhower can get the services working together without this difficult and time-consuming reconstuction, he will have solved a problem that is funneling the country's resources into a constant and needless waste...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Small War in Washington | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next