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Near Story City it nipped the knees of five bare-legged chorus girls stalled in a drift until farmers rescued them. An Iowa medico had to take to a bobsled to get to his childbirth case. While Des Moines faced a temporary milk shortage, stranded farmers around the countryside, their milk cans brimfull, poured milk into washing machines and horse tanks...
When Bowditch first went to sea, captains navigated by faith and "the feel of the seat of their pants." They gauged drift and current "by hunches," set courses "by intuitions," and when they could not see land, "smelled" it. Since not all captains were gifted with a sixth sense, wrecks were frequent. Position was found by making lunar observations, for which all the formulas now found in charthouse books had to be worked out on the spot. The result gave longitude within 30 miles. Of course, there was John Hamilton Moore's Practical Navigator, a British work. But Bowditch...
...streets like a red-hot football. They rolled from the White House to the Social Security Building to the Capitol and back again; but nobody fell on the ball. Washington had undertaken to replace business, as the source of power, but organization did not replace freedom, nor mastery drift...
...This country was evangelized in 1500 by the Franciscan Fathers. It has been allowed to drift for nearly 300 years and is not yet dead. The few priests are lax in religious observance, and some of them live in open concubinage...
Augusto Rodriguez-Ulloa, consul from Honduras, described Latin American educational trends last night when he addressed 50 guests of the Harvard Spanish Club. Rodrignez-Ulloa especially stressed the increasing drift from the classics to the sciences...