Word: shifted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heard there was money to be made in Burley tobacco. He died before he made much, leaving a farm to his three daughters, $2,000 each to his two sons. The sons applied their inheritance to paying off the mortgage on the sisters' farm, set off to shift for themselves. Aged 20, a brawny big youngster, Jesse found himself in Dallas, Tex. He had no money but he did have a well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager...
...Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator Glass's banking bill of last summer seemed radical indeed at the time, but subsequent events were even more radical. When the body of Democratic conservatives lockstepped to the Left behind the President, Senator Glass stood still in bitter silence...
...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...
...contribution to 1934 motoring is automatic gear-shifting. You still have to put the car in low gear (with a push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically...
...standing part spanned a river. Dr. Breasted's lieutenant in charge of the Persepolis expedition, Archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld of Germany, had more to report to his chief since the utensils, paintings and sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would give the battles of Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring...