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Word: shifted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more interested in expediency than in ethics. "It is not for an American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Retreat or Rout? | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...still four months away, but San Francisco has only six weeks before the great visitation begins.* Last week curious and critical San Franciscans took a last look around their Exposition's "Treasure Island," probably about to be closed to visitors while 3,000 workmen go on double shift to polish it off for opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pacific Pageant | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Court found that 1) Gaines was admittedly qualified to enter University of Missouri's Law School, and 2) Missouri could not shift to another State its constitutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all citizens, whatever their color. Reversing Missouri's courts, the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Missouri to admit Lloyd Gaines to its State university or give him legal training at Lincoln University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Damnify Both Races | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity to shift the Power fight from the courts to the people's forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Brutal Doctrine | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Dean Landis continued, stating reasons for the shift in prestige, "The tendencies of the courts has never been toward specialization. Types of problems which come before them are much too varied to permit complete study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alphabet Agencies Direct Paths Of Nation's Policies, Says Landis | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

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