Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statesman Stimson was patently annoyed that Governor Moody had allowed Texas to drift into such an international tangle. Already bothered by a bad head cold, he sent the Texas executive a message, promising "to see what, if anything, may be wisely done" and observing further: "The Mexican reason [for the consulate closing] is . . . because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along...
...which have over taken the English investment market. Although in the U. S. prices broke, earnings of U. S. companies have so far been maintained.But in England poor trade conditions coupled with belief that the Labor government is financially incompetent, seem to indicate the culmination of the long established drift of the London market away from its position as world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen the cycle bring Depression, as have Industrials. British Consols, once the "world's safest security" have depreciated with high interest rates. Last week's lowering of the Bank...
...such depths, or deeper, Dr. Shapley would have his plutonic laboratories. Ph. D. moles would record the pulsations of the earth's crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They...
...well as if it were yesterday, the Vagabond can see Harvard Square as it seethed with angry rioting students. The resounding thuds of the officers' night sticks, still echo in his ears and drift away to mingle with the sounds of strained intercollegiate relations that once burst forth ringing in his ears far louder than the traditional cry of Reinhart which occasionally floats up from the Yard on the night...
With the growth of the American city as the preponderant intellectual as well as economic center of this country, the drift of outstanding educators to universities adjacent to large communities has become very marked...