Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...defense job, is siren-songed by Axis agents, collared by Uncle Sam, and finally brought to his senses by hard-bitten visions of 1776, 1865, 1943. This fable gets a lift from such catchy tunes as It's Only the Beginning, Let's Be Americans All, Swing-Shift Sam and Swing-Shift Susie...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to change the date of the Christmas recess this year from December 19 to December 26 to the week of Wednesday, December 22, through Tuesday, December 28. The shift of dates has been made in order to avoid the necessity of travel over the weekends, especially the Christmas weekend, when trains and buses will be overcrowded. Also, the recess originally announced would have made it necessary for students living at a distance to leave home on Christmas day in order to be back for their first class on Monday, December...
...first this dawning realization was a bitter pill for the R.A.F. Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Every shift of bombers to the Mediterranean was a "diversion," a threat to the use of independent air power. By last week the pill was becoming an acceptable if not yet welcomed dose of reason and fact. Bomber men began to see that southern Europe offered better flying weather, bases increasingly near to central and southern Germany. They also began to see that "tactical" front-line bombing and "strategic" rear-line bombing were part & parcel of the same...