Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, on March 8, management got its chance to kill the Murray plan. On that day, the New Jersey CIO declared that the Jersey war plants were utilizing "only 49 per cent of their productive capacity," mainly because industry had failed "to use the second and third shift...
...anti-laborites twisted this criticism of management into a Congressional stampede which was to draw all attention away from the Murray plan. They took the fact that New Jersey was producing at 51 per cent below capacity because the factories were not working on the second and third shift, and came out with the tremendous lie that the fault lay in the 40-hour-a-week law. If labor would work more than 40 hours a week, and if there weren't so many hours lost on strikes, then Nelson would get all the production he wanted, they said...
Emphasizing his opinion that the intercollegiate and intramural programs were still valuable, he stated that the department would try to retain the best features of both. "In the case of our intramural teams," he said, "we intend to shift the emphasis from recreation to conditioning...
This rise in numbers has occurred despite the dropping of Chinese 11b, History of China, because of added burdens on the staff. The bracketing of this course reflects a recent shift of student interest from Chinese to Japanese, a trend which the department will attempt to fight with an intensive course in Cantonese and Pekinese this summer. The Faculty in the department has been increased with the addition of three assistants in February, while one left for Washington last fall. The annual Harvard-Yenching Fellowships, of which there are usually three or four each year, at present have been suspended...
...four smaller language departments, the war has caused little change. Neither Semitic Languages nor Comparative Philology has suffered any alterations at all. Indic Philology, with its one concentrator and one Faculty member, has felt a decrease in course enrollment from 16 to 13 student because of a shift to intensive Japanese. The relatively new Celtic Department, founded in 1940, has felt no changes in its one-man staff and 20 students...