Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parties, Norway's Labor Leaders abruptly changed their program. No longer battling for "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," their election speakers in recent weeks have posed as champions of "Norwegian democracy under the Crown" of tall, gaunt, King Haakon VII. Returns from the General Election showed that this shift paid. Labor, as the champion of Constitutional monarchy, won nearly 50% more seats, while all other major parties shrank. Though still without a clear majority, Labor will hold 69 seats in the new Storting of 150 when it meets next January...
...opening game, attention was given to the development of plays instead of to the fundamentals. To offset this condition, Coach Fesler issued a call for candidates early in the school year, and practice has been held two evenings a week since October 3. About November 12, the squad will shift its workouts from Hemenway to the New Indoor Athletic Building...
...time that darkness has made it necessary to bring out the white ball. The zero hour for ordinary visibility came at 4.45 o'clock, but Head Coach Casey kept the entire squad on the field for half an hour longer. The Freshmen were used to demonstrate the Notre Dame shift which Holy Cross will introduce into the Stadium this Saturday. The scrimmage was both offensive and defensive for both outfits, but at the end of each play the ball was brought back to the place from which the play had started. Peter, Pescosolido, Litman, and Crane were all in street...
...years ago, forty-five per cent of the graduates of Harvard College chose business as their vocation. Among the members of the class of 1937, if any reliance can be placed on the returns from the Phillips Brooks House questionnaire, the number will be nearer twelve per cent. The shift away from business so sharply revealed in these figures has been under way for some time but within the last year has apparently gone to unexpected lengths...
Winding up the meeting, A. N. Holcombe, Professor of Government, said that nothing drastic would happen, and that the chief result would be a shift of power to the middle class...