Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster bookshop has been replaced by Bryant Hall, and the "backyard" of Kirkland House is now complete. The completion of the House, however, has resulted in the overcrowding of the library; the forty-odd extra members now occupying the annex drift into the seat of meditation in Hicks House in the natural course of events, and its rooms, formerly comfortable, are now too well filled...
...hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
...Some of you will drift, peacefully drift, but ships that drift land on the beach wrecked. Some 50 per cent of you will mean well but do feebly. You will follow the rules, but you will not put your all into the task. But it takes courage to plot your course and see it through to the end. The hundred per centers among you will have that courage...
...Washington are seeking definitely to increase the purchasing power of the nation. We are definitely succeeding. The downhill drift of America has definitely turned and become the upward surge of America. . . . The people, through government, are extending as a permanent part of American life-and not just for one year or two-their insistence that individuals and associations of individuals shall cease doing many things that have been hurting their neighbors in bygone days. . . . That all ties in with the old theme of good neighbors. What is good for my neighbors is good...
...Some may elect to join the spineless drift toward impending doom. Most, however, will choose, to struggle, trusting that a valiant resistance may perchance postpone somewhat the evil day, and perhaps soften its disasters, and at least guarantee to themselves the self respect of fighting against fate...