Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the warning period," Dean Bender continued, "students will be dropped if their records are still unsatisfactory." He added that the system is not a change in rules, but merely a "shift in emphasis" in enforcement...
...Swing Shift. In Matsuyama, Japan, eight-year-old Tojo Shinagawa's father changed his son's first name to Kiyotoshi, explained that the boy was fed up with classmates asking when he would be hanged...
Many other fox breeders, including his brother-in-law, had switched their farms to mink, but Nieman did not think the shift worthwhile. Though mink are cheaper to raise (their feed costs from $10 to $14 a year), Herb Nieman thinks that mink will soon be overproduced, too. And mink raisers, who were getting as little as $11 a pelt (as against $20 last year), were wondering whether they will meet costs...
Working with Conley at Filene's are a BU student who takes the morning shift in the gift department, using the same uniform and pillow as Conley, and a 300 pound man in the window who uses no pillow...
...late fall of 1942, the entire German Sixth Army, which in the summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...