Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of Europe's devastated universities partly explained the shift from previous world centers-Germany, France and England. So, too, did the fact that for war-weary European youths the U.S. looked like the best place to get away from it all. But U.S. technological strides, especially in engineering and medicine, were the biggest lure...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...present facilities of two rooms on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House were originally set up before the war and the coming shift to the new location on the corner of Kirkland Street and Kirkland Place, along with the consequent expansion, marks a continuance of that school...
This year it took professional movers a full week, working every night, to shift the morgue to new and larger quarters. Their cargo had been-and still is-separated into four major categories: 1) books (standard reference works and pamphlets on all phases of world doings); 2) periodicals (the most important U.S. and foreign magazines and trade journals); 3) subject file (general material on everything from Absinthe to Zoos); 4) biographical file (information on well known peopie, living or dead, from AE, Irish Poet George William Russell's pseudonym, to Zworykin, Vladimir K., Russian-born U.S. physicist...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...