Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson trackmen will shift gears this week from the pre-season fundamentals to the more exacting task of preparing for the first indoor meet of the winter season, the Rhode Island Relays on December 9. Both Varsity and Freshman one-mile and two-mile relay teams will participate...
...Lodge Plan would correct the two major evils of the present system. Large states now have exaggerated importance in an election, since in these states a difference of a few thousand votes can shift huge stacks of electoral votes from one column to the other. Twice since the Civil War this has meant that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more...
...come Captain Chip Gannon is not listed? "Chip has only been out for three days," Barclay explained, "and he hasn't had a chance to pick up some of the changes in our system. Also, it may take a little for him to make the shift from football to basketball...
Sophomores and juniors still residing in the Yard who decline single House vacancies may be moved into the out-of-Yard dormitories for the Spring term, "if the best interests of the general situation call for such a shift...
There was a time when any Thanksgiving editorial worth a small drumstick had to discuss the pros and cons of President Roosevelt's New Deal Turkey Trot, and whether or not such a holiday shift was in the best interests of society. An early Thanksgiving, went the argument, was convenient for the Christmas Card and affiliated industries, but worked hardships on the farmer who fattened his fowl. If the editorial writer were sufficiently steamed up, he might lose all sight of mince-meat, hard sauce, and associated victuals in his chase after a good solution...