Word: drifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stacks of Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.'s plant at Trail, British Columbia, pour billows of smoke heavy with sulphur fumes. The fumes drift across the nearby international border, enter the State of Washington, permeating the broad valley of the Columbia River, poisoning orchards, crops, cattle...
Since the game began, the professor has no doubt noted increased attention on the part of his class, though it is doubtful whether this means that the students are absorbing the complete drift of his remarks. Three students keep tally, but many holders of tickets probably check up on the counting. It is to be hoped that no Harvard man would be guilty of asking leading questions to bring the total nearer to his own number...
...York Evening Post which spends much of its editorial time in the field of college activity came out recently with a denunciation of the "highbrow" drift which had swept away the old college Glee Club. Says the Post. "College boys are not professional singers. The Mendelssohn and other choral societies meet a fine public need. But the undergraduate should not be called upon to live up to their standards of excellence. The under-graduate should express and control his own music just as he should express and control his own football...
While the California scientists were planning another cosmological talk with Dr. Einstein, they received contradictory news which complicated their Universe for them. Dr. Einstein built his Relativity theory upon the negative results of the famed Michelson-Morley ether-drift experiment performed in 1887. Last week two men announced that they had rechecked that experiment, obtained opposite results. One man, Dr. Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy...
...Coast Guard service, filmed an extremely interesting and instructive picture on the subject of the international ice patrol. The patrol, which was established as a result of the celebrated Titanic disaster, is commissioned to sail up and down the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic, charting the location and drift of icebergs. Every spring about three or four hundred of these huge birds come drifting southward from the glaciers of Greenland. It is the duty of the international ice patrol to keep watch and give each vessel passing through the ice areas all information possible concerning the location' and drift...