Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they spied Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization striding, not from the elevator, but down the corridor, accompanied by Philip Murray, head of the C. I. O.'s ten-man peace committee. Calm and silent, Messrs. Lewis & Murray waited for the newsreel men to shift their light and focus, obligingly posed for a hundred stills. Then they, too, vanished into Suite...
...second period and ran the string out with four mere in the finale. High scorer for the Crimson was Austle Harding, third line center, who scored three goals and made one assist. Twice he circled the Tech net and sneaked the puck into the corner before the goalie could shift from the other side...
...Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
...most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman in the U. S. And it is, as Mr. Beck declared last week, a tight to a bitter finish. The fronts shift, the issues vary, but for nearly all labor trouble in California and the Northwest, the Beck-Bridges war is the sombre backdrop...
...Debating team have pointed the way both to a natural extension of debating and a desirable strengthening of the intramural system. The Debating Council has longe sought an outlet for candidates who cannot be fitted into the relatively few Varsity teams chosen, and the University is steadily seeking to shift emphasis from inter-collegiate activities, to the Houses. House debating is a solution twice blest...