Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basketball team stated that there were no drastic changes in the rules which are being interpreted tonight. The changes that have been made since last year are mainly those of emphasis. In the case of charging, especially, the classes dealing with the problem have been reworded so as to shift part of the cause penalty from the defensive to the offensive player...
...that it is making satisfactory profits. Practically all the rest claim that they are losing money. Certainly most are. They have millions of tons of coal mined and ready .for : sale at low, unprofitable prices. But sales have fallen off. Electricity, gas and oil are supplanting coal. This economic shift is inevitable...
...competition for the International Military Trophy 18 riders, three for each team, rode 18 horses around the ring. A last minute shift in the U. S. line-up caused 12-year-old Buckaroo, who had hitherto been the best jumper in the show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland...
...until 1902 that the Opel works were ready to turn out their first all-German automobile. It had two cylinders, a cardan-shift drive. Three years later, Opel engineers developed machines of 45 to 50 horsepower. Automobile production became the chief business at Russelheim. And when fire destroyed the sewing-machine plant in 1911, it was not rebuilt. The new Opel's concentrated on bicycles, motor cars...
...light on Mr. Holmes' contention here. But there is no reason, according to Mr. Holmes' statement why a student, once his House has been chosen, "will have no chance whatever to get into another House." It is certainly not difficult to perceive that any appreciable latitude in opportunity to shift Houses will soon lead to a general grouping on interest or class basis. That is, gentleman of leisure will tend to congregate in one House, determined scholars in another, publications men in a third until the object of providing each House, with a cross section of the whole college will...