Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stewart's tubelike conveyor would run on trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons...
...alleviate the present crowding in most of the United States' large cities and to make urban re-development possible, Perkins strongly urged a shift of population away from cities and to new smaller communities which should be built in outlying areas...
...That might mean, under a free economy, that some inefficient Lancashire textile plant would close down while production would be expanded in a Lyon factory, better situated for general European trade. In a planned economy (which Britain's Socialist government considers indispensable to Western Union), the Lancashire-Lyon shift would be the subject of a formal government decision. It would come up for discussion in the kind of assembly the French want (say the British), and it would stir up nationalist resentment in Lancashire, which would make agreement harder...
...things are sorrowful, some are jokes." His favorite stunt is no joke to Albers. At first glance his paintings look rigid and definite to the point of dullness, but there is nothing definite about them. Through tricks of contrast and perspective he makes the shapes in his painting shift and change as the looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want...
...Quiet One pictures the disappointments and fierce resentments of a young Negro boy (played by nonprofessional Donald Thompson) who has been abandoned by his parents and left to shift for himself with an unsympathetic grandmother. When his fears and confusion have made him into a sullen "incorrigible," he is sent to a school for boys and given psychiatric treatment...