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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This reorganization is directly responsible for the present plight of the squad. In their last two games the Yardlings were unable to score once. There has been a constant shifting of both the forward line and the supporting halfbacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...Rather than simply winning "a Hollywood Oscar" [TIME, Sept. 19], ex-Sergeant Harold Russell, National Commander of the AMVETS, won two at the same time . . And no one ever deserved them more than did Russ, who is a constant inspiration to all who know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made up for the lack in the transportation...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Social Notes From All Over: Students Abroad | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet in Force | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there is a constant threat of avalanches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men y. Mountains | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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