Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history which reached its climax between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago. This particular mastodon wandered around in Licking country after the ice had melted far to the northward from this place, as indicated by the fact that the remains are in swamp muck on top of glacial drift. It therefore lived between 5,000 and 30,000 years...
...Drift from Fords. The Ford Motor Co. permits scant publicity for its production figures. Only by inference may these be calculated at the present moment. That is not so difficult. Thus...
...program must be adopted for populating the Dominions with British stock if they are not to drift away from the Empire. . . . Can we expect loyalty to British ideals from those Galicians, Poles and God knows who, who are populating the new West...
According to the daily press, Trinity College plans three innovations, all consonant with the drift of liberal thought in education. The first is an elaborate freshman week with the intent of truly initiating the new arrival into the ins and outs of the college before he plunges into the maelstrom. The second contemplates the abolishment of mid-year examinations. It is purposed to rest grades during the year on judgments more co-incident with the actual work performed in courses. The third and last reform is identical with that most recently instituted in Harvard and Yale, namely, permission for upper...
...audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the people drift in, in casual ones and twos and in large box parties, always late?sometimes so late that when the curtain rises most of the seats are vacant. The Philadelphians, however, are rarely late for their teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike...