Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backing up an edict from the precinct warden concerning dimout compliance, Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's air raid wardens, last night labeled offenders as "irresponsible young men." At the same time he added that "on the whole," the dimont, controlled by Army order and complicated by the shift in starting items, had been fairly successful...
Although Collins, who has been with his present job only five months, has guarded many of the College's ivy-clad buildings on the night shift, he has never had to call out the Yard cops or turn in a fire alarm. Rowdy students just don't seem to cross his path and fifth column agents apparently aren't interested in the University's research laboratories...
...Swing Shift. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Walter S. Gates suggested establishment of a night court to handle divorce suits for men & women busy all day in war plants...
After a year of wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
...United Nations, the Vichy power shift meant that France might re-enter the war as a military ally of Germany. Laval spoke bombastically of a legion of youth to recapture Algeria. There was still talk of a quick peace treaty "guaranteeing" the French Empire. Such a treaty, superseding the armistice violated when the Germans moved into Unoccupied France, would make military collaboration "legal...