Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons for which Harvard, Yale and Princeton have failed to join in any Eastern "Big Ten" which might be formed are obviously not those of "a sort of superficial snobbery" as the Daily states. To accept such a presumption is to ignore entirely the whole shift in undergraduate attitude toward football and to base futile arguments on a threadbare theme. The Eastern Conference idea is acceptable and conceivable only in the degree in which it supports the recent rationalization of the sport. Certainly the Present regime of the western body is not toward that...
...Coach F. G. Mitchell will return to his arrangement of the past few weeks, with W. W. Lord '28 covering first base and batting in the cleanup position. J. P. Chase '28 in left field, and J. E. Tobin '27 again relegated to the substitutes' bench. The batting order shift of last week that interchanged Chase and W. B. Jones '28 is apparently permanent. Chase has been hitting very well since his elevation to the second place in the lineup...
...present shift is to last only for the remainder of the week and a first and second eight will be chosen by Coach Brown next Monday. The rearrangement of the crews was made in an attempt to determine better the ability of various men, especially the strokes, which can be done much more easily by rowing them in different and evenly manned boats. Coach Brown did not say, but it is thought that Norton and Perkins will stroke the two crews during most of the week and that Watts will replace one of them when the squad is again given...
...game's coming out--in fact I might do a lot of things. But I've got just one thing I want to say to you. And it isn't that our pitchers have got any new shoots which can fool the other guy, or that a last minute shift in the batting order is going to make us into a different team, but it's just this: the men on this team are going to give every last ounce of energy out there on the diamond tomorrow, and if you get behind them to the last man with everything...
Petruchio made up as a cowboy, with leather chaps and cerise shift, sporting a long cattle whip, starts his tactics of taming the shrewish Katherina, by twining the whip about the shoulders of the screaming flapper, as he sings...