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Wegener-they drift. Once North and South America were part of Europe and Africa. Hundreds of millions of years ago, they drifted apart and went their separate ways. The gap formed the Atlantic...
...five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
...sponsors of the Cleveland Institute call the forthcoming forum "A Report from the World" in the belief that study of the relationship between the U.S. and other countries is the most realistic and fruitful approach to worldwide international relations. Either a cynical assumption that the U.S. will drift back into isolationism or an over-optimistic belief that the U.S. will carry more than its share of the burden might retard for years the growth of a wholesome spirit of international cooperation. Both the U.S. and the rest of the world have much to learn about what each may expect...
...this way the particles grow at the expense of the separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...
...high pay of factories and the luxuries of city life had swollen the drift from the land into a steady tide. Even Quebec, against the ancient tradition of living on the land, was turning disturbingly urban, and the Catholic Church was deeply concerned. Last week, in a pastoral letter signed by Cardinal Villeneuve, three archbishops and 14 bishops, the Church raised its powerful voice in a plea : go back to the land. The Church wanted to stop not only the movement to the cities but emigration...