Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House tariff bill took a long step in the direction of substituting U. S. Valuation for Foreign when it proposed that the President be authorized to shift tariff appraisals from foreign to domestic valuation when conditions warranted. Senate Finance Committee Republicans took their problem with them into executive session, wrestled with the evidence spread between the two valuation systems, pondered the merits of each...
Perhaps the best indication of the change can be seen in the shift of the spotlight from pitchers to batters. Once upon a time small boys wanted to grow up and be like Pitchers Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Now they want to grow up and be like Hitters George Herman ("Babe") Ruth or Rogers Hornsby...
Senator Glass ridiculed the idea of passing the Jones Resolution for another joint Commission on Prohibition, declaring: "There is not a fact to be ascertained, not one, not now immediately available to the President and the department heads affected. It is an attempt by the executive . . . to shift to the Congress initial responsibility...
...gear shift is a handgrip extending from the cowl instead of a lever from the floor...
...seating of the University eight may be regarded as definite but Coach Brown has intimated that the near future may find one more change in the jayvee boat. Just what shift would be made he would not indicate, but it seems likely that some member of the third crew which is due here soon may find a berth in the second crew...