Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under constant hammering from Stryker, Chambers admitted perjuring himself seven times before the grand jury in October. Actually the perjury was the same one seven times repeated: his early denial that he and any of the people whom he had named were actually in an espionage plot. They were merely infiltrating to places of importance, he had said...
...thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
From the beginning he ruled out lecturing-a spoon-feeding system of teaching, he thought, which "was probably the worst scheme ever devised for imparting knowledge." The "quiz or recitation system," thought Holt, was little better. His own prescription: instead of ordinary classes, constant informal conferences, at which teachers and students could think and talk together...
...make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state and county school boards, a constant buzz of public discussion on everything from school text books to new courses in the sciences. The U.S. has never had an organization quite like the Lyceum-until this week...
...physical discomforts of the front shoved most of this attitude to the background, the report goes on. In fact, the mud and K-rations made a deeper impression than the constant threat to life and limb...