Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 30 hours, Bryan Untiedt's father who had been tramping the roads all day, found the bus. All the children had collapsed. Father Untiedt got them to the nearest farm, only three-quarters of a mile away. In a drift three miles away was found Carl Miller's corpse. Two more of the children died that night. Bryan Untiedt's eight-year-old brother Orlo and the driver's daughter Mary. All the rest had pneumonia. Both Bryan Untiedt's arms and both his legs looked as though they must be amputated...
...evolution of Liberal Lippmann's political ideas is charted less clearly in his editorials than in his books (Drift and Mastery, The Political Scene, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, Men of Destiny, American Inquisitors, A Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments...
Tonight at 7.30 o'clock at the Business School Dr. John Dewey, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University, will speak on "The Drift and Control of Business." This talk, which is under the auspices of the Business School Club, is to be held in the Baker Library...
...Insurgent group will, more than ever before, hold the bal- ance of power, will be able to do the most with their economic program. Their activities at the next session (December to June, 1932) will color the whole presidential campaign. Last week's meeting served to emphasize the drift of Progressive opinion from Republican to Demo- cratic principles. To Progressives, President Hoover has become a hopeless reactionary; they have lost faith in winning any of their reforms through the Republican party. Democracy, they hope, will furnish a presidential candidate they can support. Most favored among them at the moment...
...Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy...