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Word: adrift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the chairmanship of the Department of Economics will cause regret not only among his large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOCTOR PACKS HIS BAG | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...need or desire for tutoring. It was rather in such courses where a tremendous reading list was supplemented not with exposition or enlightenment on the subject matter, but with a series of the disorganized personal ideas of the individual lecturer that the average student found himself hopelessly adrift on a sea of pedantic, inchoate, vague impressions. And it is this very type of lecturer who at the end of the year thrusts before his students an examination requiring careful and categorical organization. But how can a student categorize if he has never been taught to do so? The exceptional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...House of Lords was informed by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that, after Lord Runciman was told what is expected of him, he exclaimed: "I quite understand. You are setting me adrift in a small boat in mid-Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain-on-the-Danube | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Prague Tricked? Adrift in the small boat with Lord Runciman will be a delegation of top-rank British Foreign Office experts and officials serving as advisers to this one-man power. Much as other states make unofficial war, Britain had launched an unofficial drive for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain-on-the-Danube | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Lewis, as a potential man of destiny, thinks is a matter of great concern to his friends and enemies. In the course of a career filled with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide not only for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Whither Lewis? | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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