Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home to "go to school" in Publisher Ochs's executive department. Healthy and happy is English-born Managing Editor Frederick T. Birchall, 59, but the Times is farsighted, forehanded. Correspondent James had several weeks experience of his new job last summer. He will work with the night shift...
...plane of equable temperature within the earth Man re-established himself, tunneling thousands of miles, gradually building his subterranean cities. Working hours were continuous, but no one's shift was long. A rigid socialism did away with even the need of money. Industrial sections, the huge synthetic food-producing plants, were centralized, far removed from residential and play centres. Travel was practically instantaneous: in cars "magnetically levitated through vacuum tunnels." No animal food was eaten. The life span was prolonged to the limits of usefulness-then the worn-out person was "removed." Population was static, births controlled, hygiene enforced...
...nonsensical finished product which ushered in the New York Theatre Assembly's season. It seems that Lucien, unable to win Adrienne-his best friend's wife-has his rooms decorated precisely like the intimate chambers of his beloved. This happy eccentricity enables the producers to shift the scenes from one home to another without the expense of another set. And it causes some confusion when Adrienne's husband wanders in and discovers that his friend is living in a replica of his wife's bedroom. All ends well, however, and despite the naughty promise which some...
Said Spokesman Robinson: "It's always understood that if you go away to play football you will be taken care of. ... We got wind of a rumor several days ago that we were all going to be dropped to shift for ourselves after the football season . . . felt that we ought to get something besides food and flop and tuition. . . . Most of us will get jobs on ships until another football season rolls around, because we can't catch on at any other college-certainly not this year...
...Steel Shift. Siding with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube management against Cyrus Stephen Eaton in the longdrawn Youngstown-Bethlehem merger fight, have been Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland ironmen. Last week Pickands, Mather & Co. acquired a substantial interest in Empire Steel Corp. (not to be confused with Canada's British Empire Steel Corp. Ltd.) whose six plants are in the heart of territory covered by Mr. Eaton's Republic Steel Corp. Empire specializes in sheet steel for the automobile, refrigerator and metal furniture trades. It was formed in 1927, soon acquired several small steel companies...