Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday's announcement of a symmetrical three term calendar represents only in part the answer to an increasing dissatisfaction over the inequalities of the present division of the academic year into a College and Summer Session. The shift is actually one of a series of major steps which Harvard must make in order to mould its program to fit the demands of the Army and Navy...
Arthur Guy Empey, 59, famed private who wrote World War I's best-selling Over The Top, was rediscovered by the camera's eye: he works on the "graveyard shift" as a guard at Vega Aircraft's plant in Burbank...
...situation in the French North African colonies of Algiers, Morocco, and Tunisia will see no over-night shift of policy, Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, said last night. Rather the particular set of circumstances call for a gradual stabilization of control, he stated...
...gratifying, too, that General Eisenhower would probably be flanked in North Africa by three crack Britons -General Sir Harold Alexander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. (The shift in command also sent air-minded Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews to head all U.S. troops in the European theater -with his base in England, now one long runway for bomber attacks on Germany...
...even before this latest drastic proposal WMC Director Paul McNutt had been pushing a vast program of recruitment and training. Last week from his office came two orders: 1) All men between 18 and 38 and classified as 3-A, if they were engaged in certain nonessential occupations, must shift to essential war work or be drafted; 2) WMC, largely through the United States Employment Service, will take control of important hiring in areas of critical labor shortage...