Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place in the kinds of munitions ordered. There will be fewer tanks, ack-ack guns, ammunition; more planes, merchant ships and naval escort vessels. For example, the original 1943 tank program (75,000) has been cut about half, while the hope is to double aircraft and shipbuilding output. This shift in military strategy has caused a great many dislocations, some of them now surmounted. For instance...
Cornell's speed and fast-breaking tactics kept the Harvard defense back on its heels most of the time, and when the Varsity defenders couldn't shift fast enough, the Ithacans got in for lay-up shots...
Moving as the first unit of the University to shift onto a full-time war footing, the Business School last night announced that it would accept no more candidates for degrees, probably for the duration. Men already accepted for the February class were notified yesterday that it would be impossible to begin a new class at that time...
...same month that saw Hitler's Low Countries Blitz and the obliteration of the French Republic, the Supreme Court held by an eight-to-one vote that a student whose religious scruples prohibited his saluting the flag could be dismissed from the public schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...
...frequent shift in personnel behind the counter of the Grille is one of the few indications the undergraduate has of the manpower crisis within the University. All the staff for the kitchens and the dining halls are provided through the Personnel Office which is hard put to find the skilled labor...