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Until the host of young people are provided with a permanent place in a revised economic order, there are before them two possible futures. They can drift along, bewildered, dissatisfied, listening for the sweet music of a Pied Piper's promises. Or they can sink their roots into the democratic earth, can get a feeling that they are both giving something to, and getting something from, our society...
...independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen...
...last week's storm a great mass of warm, moist, tropical air swept from the lower Mississippi Valley. Cold air was pressing south from Canada, underrunning the warm air drift, creating an area of low barometric pressure that moved from eastern Nebraska through Iowa, western Wisconsin, across western Lake Superior. In Colorado there was a three-foot snowfall in Cimarron Valley, where 10,000 head of cattle and sheep were endangered; in Oklahoma and Kansas, houses were unroofed...
...have a high percentage of ulcers. Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases printed the full debate. Since physicians have no sure cure, and surgeons can only cut out pieces of flesh, the doctors had plenty to argue about. The patient as usual was left holding his stomach. Drift of the argument...
...first 2,000 Lewis words was Lewis against Roosevelt. That theme had first been sounded by John Lewis within a year after he poured $500,000 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign. Last year he arraigned the New Deal for abject domestic failure ("The nation cannot forever continue its appalling drift"). Last January he had fiercely denounced a third term. Last week he finally let himself go. Speaking like an oldtime tragedian, he let his orotund words roll out over three networks, 322 radio stations, to perhaps 25,000,000 listeners...