Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those that fail. For two years he had the power for which many a President before him yearned-to reorganize the departments of the Government-but last January, when the Reorganization Act which gave him that power quietly expired at its two-year term, he had used it to shift only a few bureaus and make a few more jobs. Neither a key organization nor a key man had come out of the multiplication of agencies. No one had yet grown up out of the cutthroat tangle of confusion as had Bernard Baruch in World...
Bill Rothschild, a Junior, has replaced Andy Gaudielle in the number seven seat behind stroke Johnny Abbot, but otherwise Captain Seth Crocker's crew will row as of last week. As a result of this shift in recent time trials the Varsity lightweights have distincly improved over their previous performances against the Jayvees...
...This shift in the seating arrangement is admittedly an experiment, and whether it works or not is a question which cannot be answered until well into next fall. But, successful or not, the H. A. A. is doing its best to give the Crimson cheering section a better look at their team...
...have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet...
...Mass for the British in St. Patrick's Cathedral June 4 (which happens to have been the birthday of King George III). This is the first Mass for Britain in the history of the great church dedicated to Ireland's patron saint. It indicates a meaningful shift in Irish-American Catholic sentiment...