Word: drifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballistician, TIME'S Science writer erred pardonably in assigning "drift of waves" as one of the factors affecting the trajectory of a projectile fired at long range from a battleship...
What he probably meant was "drift," by which is meant the gyroscopic precessive motion of the projectile to the right of the plane of the initial trajectory. This drift to the right increases with the range, and obeys definite scientific laws...
When firing from a moving ship, both drift of projectile and drift of vessel must be taken into account...
...defeated Labor candidate, Mrs. Barbara Gould, rolled up 12,799 last week, whereas at Norwood in 1931 Labor polled 7,217 and the regular Conservative 30,851. Norwood voters were so apathetic last week that few more than half of them went to the polls, but the drift to Labor, now seen all over Britain, remained ominously clear...
Harvard's third varsity crew, closely followed by a coaching launch, was rowing on the Charles River near Cambridge when an engine explosion fired the launch. Under coach's orders. Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., No. 2, and crewmates sat helplessly by, watched the burning launch drift ashore...