Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Pete Ward unable to box for the rest of the season because of his appendix, and with Walter Crampton, also a 135-pounder, out with a wrenched ankle, the lineup for the Army meet on Saturday will receive a considerable shift. Ward's loss comes as a major setback, especially since the two hardest contests of the season come within the next two weeks. Rated as the classiest intercollegiate boxer in this section, he has lost just one collegiate bout in three years of competition, that to Louis Wertheimer of Syracuse, the intercollegiate champion...
...steel one stretch body (including the roof) which offers greater safety and the opportunity to have the body color run without break even on to the roof. Second there is a modern version of the old electric-shifter called the "electric-hand" which allows one to shift in advance, and carries out these pre-arrangements when the proper time arrives...
...effort to bring their aptitude for scholarship to its finest flowering. As these students developed their capacity for independent, self-directed study, they should, upon the tutor's recommendation, be allowed increasing exemption from the formal requirements of course work. Little by little the center of their interest would shift from courses to tutorial work, so that by Senior year the top men in this group might conceivably be allowed complete exemption from course requirements. The system should be as flexible as possible, since its purpose would be to fit the needs not of types, but of highly developed individuals...
...come as a shock. Most of them would undoubtedly prefer to trust him, rather than Congress, with $4,000,000,000. What made that one casually sensational sentence historic was that, if Congress gives the President what he wants, the centre of authority in the U. S. will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part of the budget message had a tithe of the significance of that one sentence. Yet, in immediate import, other budget points cut a far wider swath in the news...
Hudson's specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift...