Word: drifte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years or three years off--and a plan for raising revenue is included, the investing public will accept the program as feasible, for they know Uncle Sam has unexampled resources. If there is no such sign of a let-up in spending and the country is to drift on, the reaction will be unfavorable. Washington is guessing that the President will be found on the side of restricted expenditure and a limitation on the present era of dangerous borrowing
...North's thoughts could drift back to a December day in Philadelphia, when the Federal Council was in the throes of organizing. It was no easy matter to thread the creeds and dogmas of dozens of sects and bring them together in a common Christian purpose. Out of a bog of conflicting theological ideas Dr. North led his confrères to high and solid ground-social service. An active minister and city missions worker, he believed that "when the standards of the Gospel shall have become the rule of Society, His Kingdom will be here." He wrote...
...Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive...
When portly Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as the Treasury's hard money adviser, he warned his onetime pupil Franklin Roosevelt that "there is no defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation other than an aroused and organized public opinion." Last week that opinion was mightily taking shape...
...have reached the conclusion that there is no defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation other than an aroused and organized public opinion. ... It is for the purpose of contributing to such a movement that ... I sever my connections with your administration. ... It is possible that there still might be a meeting of minds had I been offered any opportunity to discuss policies with you. But no opportunities whatever have been afforded me since my return from London in July...