Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to improve one of these two evenly-matched boats at the expense of the other, Bolles evolved a complicated shift which brought Sophomores Bus Curwen, Gerry Prince and Junior Reggie Filz up to the seconds from the so-called third boat, while Bill Homans, Bull Reece, and John Erakine went down a peg to make room for them. Such shifts so not tell the main story, however, for last year's Varsity stroke, Jack Wilson, has relinquished his stern heat and moved to two in order to make room for Curwen, who is now setting the pace...
They were there at dawn when workers arrived for the morning shift. Some non-union men broke through. Pickets jeered. But there was no serious violence until 200 nonstriking Negroes, who had remained inside the beleaguered plant, made a sortie through Gate 4 armed with iron pipes, steel bars, bolts, razors, knives, and charged the pickets. Hot & heavy was the battle until the attackers withdrew, fled back inside...
...gloated the German newspapers early last week. Yugoslavia had joined the Axis. That move would determine the course of life inside Yugoslavia (see p. 31), would shift the military balance in the Balkans. All over the world it would stand as another sign of the growing power of Hitler's new order and illustrate to Greece the folly of resistance. But the editors of Germany chiefly exulted in this...
...shift in radio frequencies will necessitate the readjustment of some 11,000,000 sets of the push-button variety. For instance, Chicago's WLS will move from 870 to 890 on the dial; New York's WABC from 860 to 880. For the privilege of enjoying automatic tuning after reallocation, U. S. listeners will have to spend in the neighborhood...
...create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry thirty thousand passengers in, out, and through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number...