Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing boat entering Oyster Bay after midnight came upon a cabin cruiser adrift without lights. The fishermen thought they heard someone thrashing in the water a few hundred yards away. They called, got no answer. They thought they could see the head and arms of a swimmer heading for the dark boat. Before he reached it, before they could go to his aid, the head and arms disappeared and the Sound was quiet again. They boarded the dark boat, called for the captain. A small voice finally answered: "I'm not the captain. I'm Barbara." There...
...Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard the cruiser Penguin-the boat the fishermen had found adrift the night before. Excited, half hysterical, Mrs. Collings told conflicting stories, finally gave to police the following account...
...sure in its suggestions, so alarming in the price it says will mark continued failure, as one set forth last week. Criticizer and suggester was Wallace Brett Donham, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University. His views were set forth in a book called Business Adrift, to which Alfred North Whitehead, Harvard's topnotch philosopher, contributes an introduction "On Foresight...
Much of Business Adrift is quotable, for Dean Donham writes forcefully, shuns frills. Sections over which the reader's eye and mind are likely to linger include...
...introduction to "Business Adrift" there is used a chapter on Foresight, written by A. N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy. Its general tenor is towards making routine everywhere the basis of our social machine...