Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow made shift to enter and was warmly greeted within by his old and loyal followers of years past. They bade him sup with them in their large and paneled dining room. All unwitting he accepted. Hardly had the little group sat down before one of the young medics began mouthing pendantically about his sacra lillac joint. In his usual gallant way the Vag abond played the game. "I find that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part...
...easy way to escape the apparent necessity for doing so. By making his five children a very minor reason for the writer to leave home and a major reason for him to return there after ten years, Seed, as a cinema, tells essentially the same story and by a shift of emphasis defends the conduct which Author Norris attempted to discourage. This change does not impair the values of the story so much as does the repetitious photography of the children - first as obstreperous small fry, later as simpering adolescents. Bart Carter, the writer, lives with his wife, Peggy...
Among other notables who mourned Albert Abraham Michelson (see col. 3) was Sir James Hopwood Jeans. British mathematician. He and Lady Jeans had gone to Pasadena a fortnight ago so that Sir James could see at first hand the "red shift" (lengthening rays of light) which Dr. Hubble has observed through the Mount Wilson telescopes. Sir James has calculated that the Universe is expanding at a tremendous rate and in some far future eon will disintegrate. The lengthening of stellar rays seems to prove his thesis, which is the opposite of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan...
Rapidly spreading of late as a form of State taxation is a levy on incomes. Political agitation for tapping this source of revenue comes chiefly from farmers who want to shift the emphasis of local taxation from the country to the city, from property (i. e. land) to salaries and profits. Until the 1930 Legislatures began to sit, 20 States had laws for taxing incomes. Since then three States?Idaho, Vermont and Utah?have joined the income taxing procession while the question has been present in a dozen others. Industrial Pennsylvania remains the largest State without a direct levy...
...April 26?Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city...