Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shift. When almost a century ago, Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist, declared that sound and light would be changed in wave lengths if they proceeded from a moving source or to a moving observer,* astronomers looked through their telescopes at the far away stars and found that he was correct. They discovered that light from some stars appeared redder than normal, others appeared bluer, concluded that the red stars (the longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory...
...Corrado Gini of the University of Rome last week to divide homo sapiens, like Gaul, into three parts. This was important because the French semi-official newsorgan Le Temps proceeded next day to take the division most seriously. It is simple, logical, best of all allows everyone else to shift the whole blame for nearly everything upon L'Oncle...
...unofficially figured that the number of unemployed was 5.2% of the gainful workers-that is, one employe out of 20 was looking for a job. Because no direct count of unemployment by census enumerators has ever been taken before, no comparisons were available to indicate the economic spread and shift of joblessness. The count was five months old. By means of index averages and estimates from industrial centres the Labor Department has reported a recurrent monthly decrease in employment since April. The political importance of unemployment in this year's campaign has long been obvious. Republicans minimized the issue...
...friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...
...that his agency suffered from "a certain lack of confidence created by the many baseless rumors regarding economic conditions in the Soviet Union and the recent unwarranted attacks on the Amtorg." He repeated his warning that if U. S. financing conditions for Russian trade continued "unsatisfactory," Soviet purchasers would shift their business from...