Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...float out today. It was first intended to get it out on the 14th, as the high tide was due on that date. There was strong wind blowing down stream about that time and the tide failed to appear, so that it was not possible to drift the float off the marshes. The janitor will need one day to clean up. so the house will open Wednesday morning...
This is an age of doubt, not of irreligion. Its temple is one of doubt, not of denial; of unbelief, not of disbelief. Man is a ship made to steer, not to drift, and when he finds that he does not know where he is, the voyage of life becomes melancholy...
Geological Conference. Communications by Robert Wainwright: Sand-plains at Readville and Blue Hill; L. H. Davis: The Merrimac in pre-glacial times; E. T. Brewster: The drift of Andover. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Communications by Robert Wainwright: Sandplains at Readville and Blue Hill; L. H. Davis: The Merimac in pre-glacial times; E. T. Brewster: The drift of Andover. Geological Laboratory...
...report there are some interesting statistics about men taking second-year and final honors. The number of men who take second-year and final honors does not increase with the growth of the college. The report contains several figures of which a few may serve to show the general drift that students are taking in regard to honors. Since 1881 the yearly average of both second-year and final honors has been a trifle over 24. The number of men taking second-year honors for the last four years has been 19, 18, 27, and 19. More men, it seems...