Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the Senate defeated an amendment to make Congressional approval by a mere majority a prerequisite of any Presidential shift. Since this point was the crux of the matter, the vote, though closer than expected, made it look as though the bill would have clear sailing. Far from silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this...
...past year has achieved more fame than the Auto Workers' brisk and boyish president, Homer Martin. Eight months ago, armed with contracts from General Motors and Chrysler, a membership of 375,000, an overflowing treasury and the enthusiasm of youth, the U. A. W. prepared to shift into high and charge the unconquered Ford fortress. Last week the sound of grinding gears could still be heard...
...Outstanding among the three centuries of legends upon which Harvard can look back are those pertaining to its famous teachers--including such men as Dean Briggs, Kitty, Copey, and Whitehead. Recent educational trends have diverted emphasis from teaching for teaching's sake into channels of research; and although this shift has undoubtedly tended to produce more and better scholars, it has at the same time caused a dearth of "legendary" teachers. Granted that research is the basic element in the teacher's equipment, nevertheless it is wise to have one or two men in every department who will be regarded...
...ardent small-boat sailor. Franklin Roosevelt naturally conceives of the ship of State as a small yacht, steered by a hand tiller which, to keep the boat on a straight course, the skipper must shift as the wind changes. Said the President: A year ago when inflation threatened, the helm was shifted far to starboard. Last autumn, warned of a threatened deflation, the Administration put it hard to port. While his listeners were trying to calculate what, if anything, all this meant in terms of political Right & Left, the President made his main point: that to regard a shift...
...closely bound up with the magnificent conception of the Expanding Universe. Half way out to the fringes of the visible universe, the nebulae or star-galaxies appear to be rushing away from Earth at speeds up to 25,000 miles per second. The light from these nebulae is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and ordinarily, such a shift indicates receding velocity. But the speeds are so big that many astronomers consider the Expanding Universe may be an illusion, have sought some other cause for the redshift in the spectrum. A decrease in Planck's constant...