Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to the productions, Rodemich remarked that even when the orchestra was performing, they were "working up" the show. "Sometimes" we think a band number will be a knockout, it proves not to be: we shift things around, and cut parts out, until we finally manage to please the public. What all audiences want is pep: they like the soatimental stuff, but snappy rhythm is always more successful," he concluded...
...equipment of the building, still only in its tentative stage, one notices a definite shift in the theory of exercise. Hemenway offers a classic example of an athletic workshop. Dumbells, pulleys, and other machines of torture abound; exercise, "work", abounds. In the proposed building, the emphasis will have moved with the times. Work will yield to fun and recreation, exercise to competition. If Harvard men of the future lose their Hemenway acquired, Strongfertian muscular development, they may at least hope to replace it by better all-round condition and a sense of humor...
...decision at the commencement of the present academic year to cut all CRIMSON competitions down to nine weeks has necessitated this change which gives Freshmen two opportunities to try out for the Board instead of one as was the case in previous years. The shift from one to two competitions will also involve a certain change in the nature of these contests. Freshmen were formerly called out around the first of March and then competed for membership on the Board until the middle of May. This was the only chance offered to make the Board until the Sophomore year. With...
...three walls of the old structure, gave way under the weight of heavy printing machinery on the second floor, and $200,000 damage was done by the flames which swept through the building. It has not been determined what caused the blaze, which broke out shortly after the night shift of the plant left after printing the Yale News for last Friday...
...longer the new tax rates remain unknown, the longer must business be restless. Washington wiseacres interpreted the Smoot-Mellon "delay" as an adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...