Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struggle between departments, no question of juris diction. There will be only one ultimate authority in all economic questions Party Comrade Göring." Significance. No immediate change in German economic policy was foreshadowed by this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer who has had for three years the peculiar title of "Personal Economic Adviser...
...career distinguished by stanch independence, it was not the first time that blind Senator Gore had lost his job because of opposition to a Democratic President. In 1916-17 he fought Woodrow Wilson's drift toward war, fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill...
...there not something more than an opportunity which should be offered to them? All men have not the force of character to walk forward on their own initiative and grasp such opportunity. Examples by the score can be found in the College today of men who have been pleasantly drifting through their four years here. Many such men get into the College in the first place because of a long family connection with Harvard, and it is fitting that they should be here. Looked at from a hard boiled point of view, if they are drifters it is their...
...representative stocks dropping from one to nine points on the New York Stock Exchange. Since early April the Standard Statistics stock average has dropped from 124.9 to 110.9. After more than a year of rising prices such a reaction was not precisely surprising. However, the market's downward drift was accompanied by something more than long faces in brokers' boardrooms...
...great flaws, in tutoring and in lecturing, may, in turn, account partly for the field's reputation as a "snap" and magnet of many men who care not a whit for the subject or for education generally. Once in the Department, lacking self-motive power, they continue to drift in the doldrums, with little departmental breeze to spur them onward. More than this, if the field is to shed its odious name, it must look to all its standards and requirements...