Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgetting the help which he received from his "foster-mother" across the sea; and the American may look with distrust upon the French so-called "militaristic" attitude, and forget what France has had to suffer from German invasion. National prejudice is inevitable, and has caused the two nations to drift apart...
...relations aright? Upon whom will the guidance for better or worse rest? Obviously upon the intelligent, the educated and the public spirited people of the world. Will they set themselves earnestly to this gigantic task, or will they immerse themselves in their private pursuits and pleasures and let things drift...
...Rand revolution started as a result of an acute economic situation, caused by the grades of ore being mined. Gold depreciated in value, and the quality of ore kept getting lower and lower until the mine owners, perceiving the drift of events, set about making attempts to improve the situation. This they did by outting down many of the privileges of the white laborers in the mines, who heretofore had enjoyed certain liberties and immunities over their black fellow-workers. The former immediately expostulated, but without effect, and the struggle broke out. The white miners, however, were largely influenced...
...state of flustered nerves one can do little or nothing. The idea, first of all, is to get calm. Then the faculties can begin to work in an orderly fashion. This relaxation can be induced, of course, without music, simply by sitting still and letting the mind drift. But music is a powerful agent of relaxation, because it so operates on us without our being conscious of the process...
...speak in terms of colleges, second and third place belong to our won municipal institutions--the College of the city of New York with nearly 15,000 students and Hunter College with more than 11,000 students. It has become a commonplace to speak of the drift from the country into the cities as indicating the close of the epoch of opportunity in American. But evidently in our great cities the road of opportunity is not being close to youth and energy and ambition. --N. Y. Evening Post...