Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summers, although he played with the seconds yesterday, is now slated to replace Bill Wilson at left half. A shift of that importance, however, can never be unalterably definite before the whistle blows...
...request hurt even worse: Six-or seven-day operations mean sharply upped overtime costs. One possible solution: add men to the second shift; perhaps start a third shift...
...this time it was too late to shift back to Morley, so the Dramatic Club has decided to go with their two shorter plays, and possibly resurrect "The Trojan Horse" once more for their Spring production
Last week Japan offered subsidies of $20 an acre for the conversion of mulberry groves into cereal patches. The Government wants a 20% shift into wheat, beans and other vegetables which, like mulberry trees, can be grown on Japan's hilly, upland plots. (Rice, the Japanese staple, must be grown under water, takes up most of the Empire's flat, lowland acreage.) Cereals, which hungry Japanese could eat, were obviously better than silk which Japan could not sell...
...Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development of U.S. football...