Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adults (up to 2 ft. long) swim up rivers in early spring to spawn. The young lampreys, which look like minute worms, bury themselves in mud and lead a wormlike life, eating microorganisms. After five years of this, when they are 7 in. long, they develop toothy suckers and drift downstream to hunt fish in the lake...
...from the issue. Harvard could still actively contribute to the solution of the national problem merely by advising the nation's educators in their planning efforts and by training teachers. Whether or not Harvard must ultimately choose such a role, the Administration in the meantime should stop the aimless drift toward expansion. It must face the dilemma squarely and calculate the price it may be forced...
...sodium vapor that the Air Force put into the atmosphere will drift with the winds. If it increases the normal air glow, it can be followed, perhaps for considerable distances. A cloud of sodium of known origin picked up by astronomers' instruments in the Eastern states will be a fine way to measure wind velocity at levels that no weather balloon can reach...
Marjorie Morning-star is characterized by its author's love for life as it is--people who live by religion, petty prejudices, and conventional morality, people who are a thousand adjectives good and bad. When Wouk does not drift off into sentimentality, he creates finely and vividly constructed scenes, and often the characters are so familiar that one finds if difficult to view them critically. The prose has a polished unpolish; it is eminently readable and perfectly suited to the novel form. Wouk might easily be remembered as a leading American novelist...
Astronomers believe that stars are condensations of the dust and gas that drift through space, so they watch dark or bright nebulas with special eagerness. Some of them contain "T Tauri variables":*faint stars that wax and wane irregularly. They light up the dust near them, which makes them look fuzzy, and they are so numerous in certain dusty regions that astronomers have long suspected that they are formed from the dust...