Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were the results of a poll of some 50,000 ballots conducted by the Literary Digest and tabulated last week. Indicated was a sensational shift in public opinion since the Digest's poll last Autumn, when 51% of the votes were pro-New Deal. The Digest did not publish these results last week because it will presently conduct a much larger poll of millions of ballots. But the preliminary returns were shown to many a businessman who grinned contentedly...
...politician can tell farmers this truth and remain a politician. But a great man can encourage and make easier and quicker the essential shift of farmers, or farmers' sons and daughters, into industry. No-one who has not mixed up his ideals with his ambitions, hypnotized himself into believing the best thing for the country coincides with the best thing for personal, political success, could advocate as a permanent policy the subsidy of farmers to induce them not to produce what the country needs...
...present with professors alternating courses annually a certain number of courses must be omitted each year. However, were three instructors to rotate within three courses, continuing the annual shift, every course could be given and without fear of stagnation from the platform. The two highly similar surveys being given now are clogging the drain, making classes unwieldy and hampering the activities of the instructors. Any such change would do much to relieve the strain in the English department...
...Louis noted a shift from securities to farms as an investment medium...
Later, the emphasis changes and technical problems of outdoor lighting, atmosphere, and open air occupy the artist. The many etchings and lithographs of street scenes, landscapes, boys bathing in a river on a bright summer day show this shift of interest...