Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the Treasury was winding up one of its quarterly financing programs which was larger than usual. Such transactions in March, June, September and December are designed not so much to raise additional cash from the money world as to shift the Government's obligations from one pocket to another...
...this shift from one powerful opponent to another, the suitability of Yale's final match is assured, but the problem arises as to Princeton and Harvard opponents on those years when the Yale game doesn't crown their season, without disappointment to their own undergraduate following. This deficiency could be remedied, we believe, by the inclusion of enough strong eastern elevens in the final contests of Yale. Harvard and Princeton to occasion an annual three-game circuit of equal interest. By admitting Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth to concluding contests, the six institutions would have three hard matches to wind...
...past month Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing...
...Commissioners Mackintosh, McCormick and Kenyon were ready to shift to Modification if, upon further trial, Prohibition enforcement did not improve...
...through the Mt. Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured the red shift in starlight, and Professor Tolman who believes with Sir James Hopwood Jeans that the universe is "exploding" (TIME, Jan. 5). After having been lectured to, Dr. Einstein gave a lecture himself last week. Before a class of 30 he talked for 90 minutes. While he rolled German words about...