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Word: shifted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mechanism of the projected tax shift will be for the Treasury to remit three quarters of the "rates" (taxes) now levied locally upon "productive industry employing manual labor." In the case of "actively producing farmlands" the Treasury will remit the whole of the local taxes, "They will be wiped clean off the slate!" exulted Mr. Churchill. Then he stated soberly that the "wiping" would cost the Treasury ?29,000,000 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill's Budget | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Junior University eight underwent a seating shift before the practice that may prove permanent owing to the removal of Allerton Cushman '29 from No. 3 position by probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFTS IN CREW SEATING MADE BEFORE M.I.T. RACE | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

...pound crew suffered one shift in the substitution at 3.3. Ganz '28 toe Maurice Hecksher '29 at the bow position. Coach C.S. Heard '25 made the replacement to lessen the poundage of the lightweight shell which had been, until yesterday, above the average allowed for 150 pound oarsmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFTS IN CREW SEATING MADE BEFORE M.I.T. RACE | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

...students to the Department of Modern Languages, which had held it up to the last six years. To be sure, the difference is small, but a gain of nearly 70 students for the latter department as compared to five for the former is enough to indicate a marked shift in the interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSE IN MODERN DRESS | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Illinois | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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