Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the wheel horses of British politics took to the public platform to prepare British opinion for the coming shift in foreign policy. From the beginning, one of the most ardent believers in clamping Sanctions on Italy's ambitions was Sir Austen Chamberlain. Last week this gaunt Elder Statesman was on his feet crying...
...Pecheur D'Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...
...future. The government department should regard the modern world not as incidental to the study of government, but as at the back of the entire course of study. What a man says is not so significant as the spirit in which he says it: the department should shift its method of attack from theoretical to practical, from analytical to synthetical; the spirit behind its approach should always be to contribute towards a better understanding of the modern world, and the most feasible means--judged from past precedents--of curing some of society's ills...
...friend, asked him if he expected to be on hand next day and said it might be hard to get a seat: "I do not know what you may do for a place. For my own part. I am sure of one. You must make what shift you can." On the scaffold he bore himself so cheerfully that the parson in attendance was somewhat disgruntled. When the ax fell, the crowd groaned, and someone said: "We have not another such head...
...Tercentenary, could not be reached last night for confirmation of the official relationship between the University's Tercentenary program and any such services but issued a statement Saturday revealing that an effort had been made over a year ago to find out whethers it would be advisable to shift the dates in view of their conflict with Rosh Hashonah. Jewish alumni throughout the country were consulted personally and by letter and upon their advice it was decided not to change the dates of the Tercentenary Days...