Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is but one of the problems to be solved at tonight's conference. Others involve the prohibition of artificial tees, and the regulation of shift plays and the screening of forward passes. The temporary rewriting of these laws, will come tonight at the Biltmore, and the session promises to be the most interesting in years...
Significance. Theoretically, the importance of the order would seem to be a likely shift of the center of the steel industry. With Pittsburgh Plus abolished, many manufacturers would immediately build factories near other steel-producing centres, now free to market at reduced prices. Gary, Ind., particularly, has watched the Pittsburgh Plus fight with intense interest. Business circles, however, attached little significance to the Commission's action in its immediate effect upon the steel business...
...long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands...
...consequent feeling of depression was evident in the closing hours. The Democrats .strove to shift the burden of disfavor upon the Republican Congress. The Republican members were eager to lay any failure to obstruction by Democrats and insurgents. Both were anxious to put blame on the Administration, which retained an unaccountable popularity, playing a cautious, silent game at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Harvard-Cambridge debate which is scheduled to be held in Symphony Hall on October 23 may not take place at all owing to a shift in the Englishmen's itinerary. In a recent letter to the Debating Council, they requested an earlier date for the contest. According to the officers of the Council, it would be impossible for the Crimson speakers to prepare in a much shorter time than that originally allowed...