Word: drifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...section, Quiz, in my opinion easily doubles the value of TIME as a magazine of information. Many of us humans are too prone when reading to drift at random through a congeries of facts without relating them to matter already assimilated. Hence we forget what we read. The anticipation of a question upon what is read evokes just enough effort to effect such a relation or coordination, and the fact sticks−we have learned...
...miners' representatives will find it difficult if not impossible to reconcile their men to a wage cut. The operators will certainly not take kindly to a complete reorganization of the industry. Finally all these groups will be tempted to keep the subsidy in force and to let matters drift, at the taxpayer's expense. Politicians of ripe experience opined last week that this latter course, dangerous though it is, seems likely to be pursued for some time to come. To cut short the subsidy and risk a general strike was widely declared to be a gesture beyond Mr. Baldwin...
...Stickney, law partner of Attorney General Sargent and onetime Governor of that state (on whose staff the elder Coolidge held the title of Colonel). Mr. Stickney had to go twelve miles by snowmobile to reach the Coolidge farm, and even this machine had to be dug out of a drift near the Colonel's home...
...Robert Choate of the Boston Herald has been able to ascertain the general reaction among Democratic senators and congressmen to the approach of the mid-term elections. Although many men of influence, Senator Walsh among them, preferred to hold their peace, a number of lesser lights revealed a divergent drift under cover of a common watchword...
This coincidence in policy between the two universities is strong evidence of the new drift today in matters educational. In this loosing of the reins of discipline--of discipline in the old-fashioned sense--lies perhaps the most encouraging single aspect of modern American education. It constitutes recognition of the competence of the average mature student to exercise his own discretion in regulating his conduct and of the immense educational advantage which derives from that exercise. And at the same time it presents to those students who enjoy the initial benefits of the new liberalism the grave responsibility of vindicating...