Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanna starts, Cowles may shift Batchelder or MacLeod, the regular guards to center, pulling Joe Cottone into the back court and using Hanna to team up with Thomas at forward...
...proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
Except for a shift in the 135-pound class in which Page displaced Richter yesterday, ranks are unchanged. Navy, with raw and unimposing material, produces its only potential threat in the heavyweight class. Footballer Player will meet Glendinning in what will undoubtedly be his hardest match this year...
Morover, projects such as this will ultimately lead to a wholesale shift of the center of gravity from the College to the Houses, and this will make easier and more logical the development of individual House "personality." This is an ultimate goal for the House system, and will go far toward remedying the illogical present situation in which Freshmen choose a House on ridiculous criteria the construction of the building, the comfort of the common room chairs, or the number of attractive waitresses. Two years ago House "personality" was a nebulous idea, a pious hope; today there are signs...
...Earle himself currently rumored as a presidential possibility in 1940, expressed great confidence in President Roosevelt's ability to find a way out. Blaming curtailment of government spending as a cause of the current recession, he suggested that reactionary advice may have had an influence on the Administration's shift in policy...