Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earthquakes of Intensity Seven are bad.* The one that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...
...swank Grosvenor House, which puts on one of the flashiest girl shows in the British Isles, the 67-year-old Sultan of Johore spends the sort of life that few 20th-century sultans live outside the sultry cartoons of Esquire. Last week Johore rejoiced in a new houri, the shift being directly due to Adolf Hitler's war against England...
...made an elaborate pilgrimage to Berlin and Rome (TIME, Sept. 30). The Generalissimo has all but officially joined the other dictators, but the most that the Axis got officially last week was that Serrano Suñer, relieved of his Ministry of Government, was made Spanish Foreign Minister, a shift that went over with a bang in the Axis press...
...line John Highmark, a junior who saw little service last year, Doug Stowell, a junior up from the Jayvees, Lee Anderson, a sophomore, and two seniors, Jack Guenther and Dan Dacey, both lettermen, have all shown ability. Highmark started against Yale, but there is liable to be a shift...
Dick Harlow also juggled two other positions on his first and second team lineups yesterday. Most significant was the temporary shift at right end which saw Sophomore John Morgan playing in place of Joe Koufman. Koufman went down to the second string with pivotman Lone Star Dietz, who was replaced by Burgy Ayres...