Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate are required to pass an examination at the end of Senior year which involves only a mere detailed rehashing of the material they have already covered. It may be said that men who fail the Junior departmental are not ready to specialize, but in any event they merely drift for a year...
DESERTS ON THE MARCH-Paul B. Sears-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Originally published by the University of Oklahoma Press last November, now republished by Simon & Schuster, this book gives a fascinating factual account of how deserts drift and spread, what can and is being done to stop them...
...Ohio River off Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore...
British editors first buried the Lindbergh story briefly on inside pages. As soon as they caught the drift of U. S. opinion, they promoted it to front pages, began editorially looking down their noses at the U. S. "The shock millions of Americans received when they read the news of Lindbergh's departure," pontificated the London Daily Herald, "is comparable only to what would occur in Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country...
...more than 17,000 patients. Through Bellevue's mental hygiene clinic each year pass another 3,000 mental suspects. Of the lot 6,500 are committed to permanent insane asylums or other institutions. Joining this yearly flotsam of mentally and emotionally deranged humanity are the 5,000 who drift through the psychiatric wards of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn...