Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last five years. First came the development of serious choral music in the New England schools, which, by rigorous training in choirs and glee clubs, have pointed their students toward the Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with waning undergraduate support, which culminated in calling off the last two Christmas trips, and hard...
...wrapped up in an automobile blanket and an umbrella over my left shoulder. No, there's not a leak (I' m not on the top floor) but there is a penetrating draft which comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead; so by a simple shift of the umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish...
With a hundred and ninety odd residents of Winthrop House petitioning Lehman Hall to restore their former janitor to his accustomed beat, the recent shake-up of the college's night watch has catapulted into public notice. For what might seem to the administration merely a routine shift of duties for the staff has cast its shadow over the everyday life of the whole college...
...more serious illnesses have been capably handled by men handicapped only by purely mechanical inconveniences. During this epidemic of grippe, many students are confinen to their rooms instead of being quartered at the Infirmary. This condition endangers rapid spread of the disease and is altogether an inconvenient and make-shift arrangement. Until Stillman is completely remodelled instituting modern scientific improvements and increasing the capacity to prevent overflows in the future, Dr. Bock and the students will have to bear the present situation, but not, it is hoped, silently...
...Street of the Fishing Cat responds like a seismograph to every shift in European politics. Anna Barabas works for a dressmaker, loses her job when French and Hungarian political relations grow tense. Her scheming sweetheart is arrested in a swindle, jailed, deported to Hungary, where he becomes a movie director. Anna and her father make a desperate expedition to South America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind...