Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the quality of the food was really inferior both as regards choice of foods and as regards preparation, and that this is not merely the protest of one spoiled or squeamish patient is best attested by the constant lines to the lavatory. And certainly the standard of the Houses at Harvard is not too high to be met by a hospital...
...first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying." At 90, like the perpetual inquiry he has sponsored, John Dewey is still arriving...
...question on which the Queuille government fell has been partially settled for the moment with a bonus to low-income workers, but there is a strong chance that the new government will not survive the winter. And to the stability of Western Europe, the instability of France is a constant menace...
...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...
...effect of the constantly shifting lineup has also been noticed in the mental attitudes of the players. The game with Dartmouth on Saturday was marked by the constant failure of the Crimson booters to beat their opponents to the ball. A brief moment of hesitancy when the ball is one the way can make an accurate pass go wild or to another player. Insecurity in a position, insufficient practice with the same eleven men, and a general air of discouragement seem to be the factors that are plaguing the freshman soccer team...