Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time to come, divided on the matter," he commented. "Zealous denominationalists suspect an institution like ours of being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we have a distinctive mission . . . . The drift of the times is away from further sectarianism and towards interdenominationalism and even formal Church unions. Our nonsectarian character, therefore, would not seem to unfit us for the future...
...crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
...bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face of a new onslaught upon us by British propaganda. The picture which Mr. Stange presents is one of a rapid drift away from a combination of indifference and pacifism toward the general acceptance of the need for preparedness and even of some militarism for its own as well as for the Allied sake...
...familiar permutations. When she was born in North Dakota, her name was Harriette Lake (of the submarine Lakes). When Columbia Pictures signed her, Harriette changed her name to Ann Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies, put her in fancy comedy (Smartest Girl in Town, Walking on Air, There Goes the Groom). This winter Cinemactress Sothern made up her pert mind to try something different. In Trade Winds (TIME, Dec. 26), she started...
Soberly and at length, Mr. Rockefeller pondered Dr. Fosdick's words. Last week he had 50,000 copies of them distributed among U. S. businessmen, labor leaders, Congressmen. In a covering note he wrote: "This sermon ... is one of the most arresting utterances in connection with the gradual drift of the world toward a great conflagration that has come to my attention...