Word: shiftly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Matilda Klopenheimer" ate first shift dinner with Cabot Hall residents last night, and was then placed on social pro for wearing her hair in a pincurl and bandanna. Though she excused her bass voice by saying she suffered from a slight attack of laryngitis, her unfamiliarity with the Radclice routine made her position doubtful...
Bogged-Down Trucks. For companies whose profits were down, the cause was generally 1) high-priced inventories at a time when prices were dropping or 2) a shift to a buyers' market, which cut sales. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, for one, reported a third-quarter net of $3.1 million (v. $5.3 million last year) on lower sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar...
...Colmol thus combines two operations-breaking and loading-which now require separate crews and machinery. It also eliminates two chief mining dangers-cutting and blasting. One of the problems it creates for mine owners is that it turns out coal too fast (up to 1,000 tons a shift) for mine elevators. Faster ways-perhaps conveyor belts-must be devised to carry the coal to the surface...
...situation, Dewey got about 600, Truman about 40, and Wallace between 30 and 40. In view of this, I would like to suggest, on behalf of both the people of the United States and the girls of Wellesley, that Governor Dewey would be wise to make a last-minute shift and run for President of Wellesley--a position which just happens to be wide open. He would be more popular there than in the White House. He would be in the great tradition of Eisenhower and Stassen. And the most harm he could do would be to wreak his efficiency...
...deadlock between East & West at Berlin (see below). The breaking of that deadlock depended, in the long run, on which side was stronger. Beneath the headlines, the week's less spectacular news contained some highly significant indications that the balance of strength between East & West was continuing to shift. The shift was in the West's favor...