Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of a closely-packed carriage. More than once, when travelling 'third' I have had to tight my way out, in a condition approaching frenzy. ..." When the student leaves the indubitable tact of claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that...
...planned the embargo order four days before. What was his primary purpose? To raise domestic commodity prices and halt the grueling pressure of deflation. If the dollar depreciated 10% in the world market, cotton, for example, should automatically appreciate by the same amount. By cutting the dollar adrift from gold, the U. S. would be on equal monetary footing with Britain and the 34 other powers which have let their currency slip. Out of such equality might grow an international agreement for a new gold standard for world exchange- but at a lower ratio...
...best shots of this quite admirable program is in the news-reel of the recent English flood, showing two small puppies adrift in a wash tub. Even if both shows were terrible (and they certainly are quite the opposite) this shot is well worth the price of admission...
Facts: Born Gerguson in 1890 in Vilna. Russia. Arrived with parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff...
...Adrift in the sandy flats of the Wallaby Islands off the coast of Australia searching for strange reptiles, Dr. G. M. Allen '01, Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals at the University Museum, and William Schevill, graduate research worker, describe their experiences as members of the expedition to Australia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in letters to the department. The expedition, which is under the direction of Professor W. M. Wheeler, left this country on July 25 last year. Excerpts follow, telling of a trip made by Dr. Allen and Schevill to a little-visited coral island...