Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard figures, covering a group of 14 graduating classes, show a gradual drift toward manufacturing without any consequent loss to law or the professions. Moreover, a greater number of men are still graduated, about 95 a year, to law, than to any other profession...
...members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
...this sudden heat? Why this blazing and kindling of fires at all points of vantage against the Business School? Why this lumbering and stubborn defense? Why, indeed, if it is not because the conclusion is ever becoming clearer and more bitter that if left to drift through courses, through rules and regulations, through requirements for a degree the ordinary student even in the College becomes labeled and earmarked as one concentrating in economics, or government or English, or Romance languages, or physics and correspondingly narrow-minded? The idea of concentration is a splendid one; but it tends to produce economists...
...English speaking peoples are naturally an emigrating race," he continued, "and when America becomes populated to the saturation point, they will naturally drift elsewhere. There are plenty of countries as yet undevelopend which might be sought out Large parts of Africa and South America, for instance, are at present either uninhabitable or uninhabited. The pioneer days will begin all over again...
...still provisional-that work was to go on for another month or two. But in no experiment so far had the beams going in opposite directions returned to the interferometer simultaneously. Every time there was interference, light fringes and dark lines supporting both the Einstein theory and the ether drift theory. More accurate observations are still to be made, but Mr. Michelson said in conclusion, referring to Einstein: "There is no question that the tests furnish another striking confirmation of his brilliant work...