Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Technically Mr. Melius was correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...
...Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious shift brought him, in 1904, to St. Luke's Parish in Evanston...
...value of his apartment, and the whole block of buildings would be cooperatively owned. Depression, however, ruined that scheme. Unemployed tenants were allowed to pay rent out of their stock accumulations, but otherwise the financial set-up was as inflexible as the usual real-estate capitalization. No matter what shift was adopted, fixed charges could not be met. Only 16 tenants are still purchasing their apartments on the original co-operative plan. These will be paid off by Mr. Rockefeller. The rest of the tenants are now on a straight rental basis...
Reason for this shift was the obvious weakness displayed by the tackle squad in the Army game. When Jim Gaffney was moved to guard after the Brown clash, only three tackles of starting calibre remained: Al Kevorkian, the only member of the squad reasonably certain to start against Yale in this position, Mike Adlis, and Ken Booth...
Coach Lamar said yesterday that it is still too early to hazard any predictions, but that early indications augur a good season. As usually the case with a Freshman eleven the lineups will undoubtedly shift considerably for the early...