Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been known in Cambridge since early last fall that Clarence Dillon '05, of New York City, has offered the University a sum large enough for a new and adequate building. It could not be learned this morning whether the razing of the old Locker Building would cause a shift in plans calling for an immediate start on the new structure...
Another new feature in the game tonight will be a shift in the lineup from the five men who have started every game so far this season. P. W. Mahady '30 has been replaced by W. S. Baskerville '32, and J. L. Rex '31 has been superseded by S. C. Burns...
Inside equipment has been altered and refined. Flower vases are now in the Greek manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome-nickels, there are more cars with shiny, metallic surfaces than ever before. The hood is sometimes of different texture from the rest of the body...
Professor Einstein says there is no such ether. Energy in all its aspects, he thinks, proceeds through empty space. His astounding and generally ununderstood mathematical formulae are elegant kaleidoscopes in which almost all the infinite fractions of nature shift upon each other to form infinite patterns...
...shift in Standard's financial backing was generally interpreted as the initial step toward the merger of the Standard System with other utility systems connected with the Harris, Forbes group. Specifically mentioned was Associated Gas & Electric, which, rapidly expanding in the New York and New England territory has recently joined the ranks of the one-billion-dollar companies. Utility Manager H. C. Hopson, executive vice president of Associated Gas & Electric, was considered the likely head of any Standard-associated combine...