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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been for years. I figured there'd be lots of fights. But there weren't any." One of his patients, who had been in constant restraint for eight years, is now in charge of a ward bathroom and is proud of his responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Are the Straitjackets? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...other hand, the German people know how important the state of their country is to Western Europe at this time, from an economic or a military point of view. The fact that a political rupture within Germany is a constant headache to the West, is a good bargaining point for Social Democrats at Bonn. The growing hope among many of the German people for complete unification can also be exploited. In fact, Russia, in an effort to take advantage of those hopes, has already established a "People's Congress" in the Eastern Zone, which is ready to announce...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...m.p.h. at standard sea level temperature (59° F.), 662 m.p.h. from 35,332 to 104,987 ft., where temperature is constant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Spain during the Peninsular Wars and never seems to have forgotten it, has been strongly suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There is no military justification for supporting Franco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franco: No Friend | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

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