Word: drifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student may still come in contact, if only through well prepared lectures, with the most distinguished members of the Faculty. When the tutorial system is extended further at Harvard, as seems highly probable, some provision should certainly be made to perpetuate this contact. To allow the lecture system to drift into the state in which it finds itself at Oxford would require a sacrifice of considerable advantages. A wise blending of the two is the present and doubtlessly the future course...
Without a plan of life, people do get on. But it seems fair to say that they rarely amount to much. They drift or zigzag or run in circles. If, then, one needs a plan of life, it can hardly be amiss to devote some part of a college course to thinking...
...Virginians, the inhabitants of West Virginia have only vestiges of booster spirit left. A new baptism under the old Indian name of Kanawha will give the people an opportunity to tell all about the virtues of the State while the new name is being learned. Then they can drift along on that tide of fame, and when it subsides Senator Chilton's argument will still hold and they can have another christening, if it should be necessary...
...France: From St. Inglevert, near Calais, to Istres, near Marseilles; from the northeastern tip of the country to the southern shore, Army officers flew under the worst conditions of visibility without sighting a landmark. They relied on maps, compasses, derivometers (drift-indicators). They strayed scarcely a mile from the course...
WHITE CARGO−White man and black woman drift irresistibly together under the poisonous influence of desert loneliness...