Word: drift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected that we shall break up and go our different ways much before the beginning of next year. The reported shortage of coal in Paris may serve to keep us longer in London, where at least we are tolerably warm. In any event we shall probably drift together and reassemble in Paris in the spring and keep alive our little club...
...constituents, the conservative avoids intercourse with the radical because he has decided against radical ideas per se or because his reputation may suffer. He is likely to be called a Bolshevik sympathizer, and with that, all his opportunity for constructive criticism ceases. And the two factions drift so far apart that they scarcely speak the same language...
...drift away from the individual course as a unit in education appears in a recent action of the governing body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical...
...that, for he says "If . . . the principles of peace triumph, civilization will advance." He means, of course, that we have done well to give up our attempt to smash a new system of government with guns; we should try the methods of peace and understanding, that we may not drift "toward another Dark...
...freedom of the individual is being sadly restricted these days. The drift of the government towards paternalism gives rise to the query, "Is there any limit to the control of government over private affairs?' The only reasonable answer is that control has gone far enough already. However, much opinions may differ on the prohibition amendment, the mass of people will raise against any attempt to curb the use of tobacco. That prehensile-nosed organization, the W. C. T. U. will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed...