Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motored to Ithaca, N. Y. to attend Cornell University's annual Home & Farm Week. The President looked out of the window at snow falling and told her to telephone if she got caught in a ditch. "All right," said she, "I'll telephone you from the snow drift." "And she would, too," said the President after the door closed. She did not telephone, however. She and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. drove to Ithaca with a good chauffeur and there she marched in a fashion parade for the benefit of the Home & Farm Weekers, modeling her inauguration gowns...
...stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies...
Warm tropical air, saturated with moisture and meeting a drift of cold polar air over the Ohio Valley, is the cause of the floods in that region, Charles F. Brooks '11, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, told a CRIMSON correspondent last evening...
Primary among the criticisms of present conditions is that an over-lax system of admissions results in wholesale slashing of the enrollment after the first year. At present many men drift into law-school upon graduation without definite purpose. They continue to drift through the first year and are dropped immediately following their final examinations. Such a system clogs the normal functions of a post-graduate academy and is obviously wrong. Stiffer entrance requirements, such as are in force at Yale, would eliminate the idle and the unfit, and would increase the effectiveness of both faculty and student body...
...Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious crew of the Cyclone risk their lives to rescue its occupants, including the beautiful French wife of the Greek captain, the towing hawser fouls their propeller. They drift toward a reef, but within a half hour of being pounded to pieces the engineer clears the propeller...