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Watching his workers drift away, a shipyard official said: "I think ultimately our new-destroyer-construction program here will cease...
...first election since liberation, France moved solidly to the left. Only local offices were at stake-the administrations of 30,000 communities. But the results clearly indicated the nation's political drift...
Between Massachusetts Avenue and the Longfellow Bridge, the crew steadily lost ground, ending the race a good length behind Cornell, and one and a half lengths behind victorious Tech. The Harvard boat's drift off course was instrumental in determining the winner...
...Well might the old banker, who had begun his career as a butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed at the shabby efforts...
...indicator efficiently, a navigator needs occasional glimpses of the ground or, over the sea, a celestial sight, for checking wind drift. But the gadget is sometimes surprisingly accurate by itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...