Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within one mile we have 28 adults and children entirely cut off to shift for themselves without any mail...
...Columbia, they have the fastest quintet in the League, by a long shot. In the game up here, they managed to snake a man past Gray and Boys so quickly that the latter were never able to shift, and consequently the Lions had a man free under the basket most of the game...
...really were coasting. If there are tutors or deans who are inclined to be too lenient in their exemptions, this could be corrected in the present manner. The change would be a great and important one, but it would be a matter of degree. So long as some such shift or decentralization does not appear, the full advantages of the tutorial system and of the body of deans cannot be achieved...
Reflecting the popularity of the penalty, the plebeian New York Daily News observed: "Here's a shift in public opinion that interests us. Before the verdict and while the lawyers and judge were summing up, most people felt that life imprisonment for Hauptmann would be sufficient, because of the circumstantial nature of the evidence. Now . . . most people seem satisfied. The feeling apparently is that Hauptmann was a thoroughly bad egg from the beginning and had better...
...experiment: shift Italian industrial workers from a 48 to a 40 hour week, keeping hourly wages unchanged...