Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind stocky "Red" McClain, formerly of the professional football Giants, Melville handed Lamar's club its first loss, 13 to 0. The Crimson gave the P.T.'ers trouble, however, hampering their attack with complicated defense formations, and gaining needed yardage with the controversial Harlow double shift. The winners were held to one touchdown in the first 59 minutes, and the Crimson came within a yard of scoring itself...
...loving Republican statisticians, pencil & paper in hand, conjectured how easily Tom Dewey might have won, with but a few hundred thousand more votes in the right places. They found that a shift of only 303.414 votes would have given Tom Dewey 15 more states,*and a bare electoral majority. The exercise had one validity: it showed how much closer was the popular vote than Franklin Roosevelt's electoral sweep indicated. But Democratic lightning calculators came right back: a shift of only 282,000 votes in the Dewey states, and Franklin Roosevelt would have carried...
...year period from 1930 to 1940 showed a drop in Greek and Latin students. In 1930, there were 415 taking classics courses out of 3240, while, ten years later, an enrollment of almost 4,000 showed 384 in the courses. Despite the shift in emphasis to the natural sciences during the war, Latin and Greek boasted 204 students of a 2,475 enrollment...
Included in Lamar's changes on the Crimson lineup is a shift of powerful Ed Davis, backbone of the Cantabs' line, from guard to tackle, to replace Bill Sweeney. Filling in at Davis's guard position will be Mal Allen, B team player last term. At center, in place of Jim Crane, is Vic Vicario, who was on the Varsity last year...
...real breakthrough of American Armies in Germany might shift substantial quantities of U.S. voters to Dewey. An end to the war, even if it happened as late as Nov. 6, might be just about enough to send Dewey to the White House...