Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studying exclusively college preparatory subjects. Dr. Johnson declared the schools will try to give students "what they want," but he estimated 80 to 90% will want some vocational training. These will continue to get instruction in a few basic academic subjects, such as English. To make possible this revolutionary shift in the curriculum, Dr. Johnson announced these contemplated steps: 1) Next to all high schools will be built factories and workshops for industrial training. 2) New technical schools and trade schools will be built. 3) The technical high-school course will be three instead of four years. 4) Trade schools...
...heart-breaker to Kirkland. Tackle Bill Daughaday and punter extraordinary Bill Heywood have been important cogs in the defense, as also have been Chip Harkness and Art Haussermann, while the "third Bill," Bill Spang, was the chief offensive threat. An injury received in the Dudley game benched this shift spinning back for the rest of the season, a severe blow to the team...
...every city of importance in Spain, and Anarchists and other extremists who distrust the Negrin Government almost as much as they do Francisco Franco. To handle both groups, trains carrying 3,000 Leftist assault guards and troops reached Barcelona from Valencia last week, vanguard of the Government's shift. At the same time Barcelona police announced discovery of the largest pro-Franco secret organization yet uncovered in the Catalan capital. Arrests and executions promptly followed...
Buick comes in four series, all straight-eights, with convertibles available in the first three. Optional at $102.25 extra on the low-priced Special Series 40, not available on higher-priced models, is an automatic gear-shift-a lever at right angles to the driving post just below the steering wheel. One movement is necessary, all others are automatic, eliminating 80% of clutch operation, cutting engine r.p.m. 18% by a new fourth speed. Also new is coil-type rear-springing...
Narrative of The Garden of Adonis is as involved as the writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since...