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...Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year because Secretary Morgenthau was too busy to come to Manhattan. The other is the New Year's Eve party in the Sulzbergers' rich mansion in East Eightieth Street near Central Park. From 2 a. m. on, guests drift in from earlier parties, gravitate to the huge, glistening kitchen to grill frankfurters, scramble eggs, bib champagne...
Elaborately equipped with radio apparatus, a squad car which pursues electronic clouds as they drift over the earth's surface is in the possession of the Physics Laboratory. Harner Selvidge and Paul Bernard King, Jr., graduate students in the Engineering School, and John Alvin Pierce, are guiding the vehicle in its pursuit of the elusive clouds that travel an estimated distance of 62 miles high...
...obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted from Stresa that British foreign policy is not the business of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This scandal unmasked the long-suspected Cabinet split which has made the Empire's foreign policy for months a policy of drift, got Stresa down to tacks so brassy that the Conference was said to have been wrecked at the start...
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...