Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard outlook was further darkened Tuesday by Stubbs' announcement that Russ Allen is definitel-through with hockey for the season. Allen has been handicapped with a severe knee injury since the fall. This makes Al Kevorkian's shift from the third line to Allen's defense post permanent and also assures Sophomore Dave Eaton of the third line pivot position...
...first two scenes, before the entrance of the supernatural, the dialogue is so dull and the characterization so crude that one gets ready for either acute boredom or a sudden shift. Fortunately it is the later that materializes. The here and the heroine, man and wife, suddenly change personalities or bodies, whichever way you choose to look at it. What the biochemist husband has failed to do for certain lower organisms by monkeying around with chemicals changing their sex his Irsh maid odes for him and his wife by Macbethian witchcraft. And so one morning they wake up vice-versa...
Carrying out his predicted shift in the U. S. diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss...
...sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there be People in the world...
Last week, looking backward & forward at year's end, the press and radio industries made many a shift in personnel, four of which were noteworthy...