Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working with short, amiable spectrograph expert Milton Humason, Hubble studied the light of the distant nebulae. In every case he found a "red shift."* The farther off a nebula was, the faster it appeared to be rushing away, and the enormous speeds (thousands of miles per second) were new, strange and startling to astronomers...
Last week, the Tokyo Headquarters Press Corps was angered and surprised by a new shift in "policy." First sign of a change came when the London Daily Herald's Hugh Hessell Tiltman, who had criticized some Occupation policies, applied for round-trip orders to Malaya and the East Indies. He was told that, if he left the area of the Far East Command, he would lose his credentials and his family its quarters. He left anyway. Hitherto, correspondents had been allowed to leave the theater on reportorial assignments and re-enter without trouble...
Uncovered in the official gridiron rules book, the shift occured after the singer's publicized remark that "All over the country men are wolves; only in Boston do they behave like lambs...
...bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...
...Blair Clark's campaign to do away with tutoring schools in Harvard Square. We have had also the systematization of the "Confidential Guide to Courses" and the annual critique of fields of concentration; these are taken, still, with salt, but they do their job. From here we may shift to another plane altogether. If may recollection is correct, the names of Harvard's German war dead in World War I are listed in Memorial Church largely because the editors of the CRIMSON in 1931 felt and insisted that Harvard, as a great human institution devoted to truth, should regard...