Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make more jobs the "big four" railway brotherhoods suggested that the roads shift employment from an eight to a six-hour basis but without any wage reductions. Declared Lawrence Aloysius Downs, president of Illinois Central: "This is a mighty poor time to ask any such thing. The roads have no money to pay additional salaries...
Although the antimanagement group has been popularly referred to as the Morrow faction, and although able Mr. Morrow's acquisition (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929) of United Cigar Stores gave wide publicity to the Morrow Interests, Edgar Palmer might well have been considered prime mover in the attempt to shift Ward control. Mr. Palmer is the largest individual stockholder not only in Ward but also in Continental and in General Baking. He is said to have some $15,000,000 invested in the bakery business. In 1924, when Ward Class A (voting) stock was selling between...
...facilities in a congenial environment, calculated to make their term of preparation for professional life as attractive and stimulating as possible. The lot of the law student is quite different. Aside from the negligible fraction who succeed in getting the few available dormitory rooms, the students are forced to shift for themselves. With the closing of the Union at the end of this year the last opportunity for sharing the University commons will be denied the members of the Law School...
...convictions, oppose them; and there are always the followers of both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with it many sordid trappings, but none so despicable as the blatant soldier of fortune...
...shift has figured largely in modern ideas of cosmic structure. Albert Einstein predicted as a consequence of his relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...