Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador current was reaching farther south than usual...
...cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift, so no harm is done if they bump a berg. Since the Ice Patrol was started, not a single ship has repeated the Titanic's smash...
...with the drift of things...
...family doctor is indispensable to the community and the nation . . . nine times out of ten he is as well able to handle a case as the specialist is; and . . . if the profession does not take care, the family doctor will vanish. . . . The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door. At the same time, we the general practitioners are implored to stay, but we cannot long survive the economic competition with superspecialism. It is a vicious circle...
...Cactus Jack" Garner leads current polls for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 and Mr. Hurja does not mind saying that the forces now putting Mr. Garner ahead will keep him there through the 1940 Democratic convention. Political events, says Mr. Hurja, nowadays follow the drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja has only to point again to the polls: 53% of all Democrats are now counted against a Third Term...