Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight shabby sedans, each driven by a grim-faced man, each freighted with five pretty, nervous and very young women, dashed and slithered over the mountain road from Chile to Argentina, plowed with whining gears through deepening snow, finally bogged down in a great drift just beneath the towering statue of "The Christ of the Andes...
...Those readers whose subscriptions are two years or longer delinquent need look no farther for reasons for the paper's death. . . . Newer generations from Germany don't take the loss of a German language paper to heart. All recent comers read English and slowly drift away from the German...
...alternative to constructive social initiative may be a prolongation of a policy of drift. More definite alternatives, however, are urged by dictatorial systems in which the factors of force and violence loom large. . . . Unless there can be a more impressive integration of social skills than is revealed by recent trends, there can be no assurance that these alternatives with violent revolution and dark periods of repression can be averted. . . . The committee does not wish to assume an attitude of alarmist irresponsibility but it would be highly negligent to gloss over the stark and bitter realities of the social situation...
...creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never was there less continuity or design in their affairs, and yet towards them are coming swiftly changes which will revolutionize for good...
...National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid more than 10,000 years older than any human remains yet discovered in North America. She was found under twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.-first proof that man lived on this continent during glacial times. Next month Dr. Jenks's Minnesota maid will be a cynosure at the Atlantic City gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained eyes will understand why the anthropologists and paleontologists...