Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shift of sentiment toward NRA was brought about in part by Industry's realization that the days of cut-throat competition and laissez faire are over. Few industrialists want them back Many of them would agree with NRA' s Divisional Administrator Arthur Dare White- side, Dun & Bradstreet executive, one of the most experienced practical businessmen in the Administration, who said last week: "It is obvious in retrospect that four years ago this month the old industrial order which existed for generations broke down forever. Today we have set up a new order which has been built...
...Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus (saints). With a graded priesthood and a liturgy which included vestments, chants and prayers, Lamaism came to resemble a caricatured Catholicism, remembered perhaps from the teachings of wandering heretic Nestorians. In the 15th Century, through a shift in its priesthood which brought in a "Yellow" or reformed sect, Lamaism acquired a theocratic and infallible rule, divided between two men who both were Buddhas incarnate. One was the mighty Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet, master of the Potala fortress, incarnation of the ancestor of all Tibetans...
...Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL...
...withdrawal of Rome seems then, inevitable, and will undoubtedly assume the role of the last straw. With Italy joining the rest of the Philistines,--Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States--, it will so shift the balance that the outlaws will do the ostracizing, and a nation's presence in the League will be regarded as an eccentricity, pardonable but peculiar. Europe will fall back on her pristine direct negotiations, and the major nations will be disembarrassed of the nagging idealism of the smaller club members, free once more to pursue their devious ways without fear of interruption or inconvenient cross...
...first real tilt between the "Brain Trust" and the so called "practical" wing of the Roosevelt administration has re-suited in a shift of governmental agencies so as to take due account of the temperamental difficulties that had come into conflict with each other...