Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare among lesser practitioners who are hamstrung by radio techniques. He calls the show's camera shots, directs the acts, plans the continuity, bosses the booking, writing, lighting and costumes, dictates the musical arrangements (and frequently hands them out to the musicians), approves the scenery (and sometimes helps shift it) and, in rehearsal, often leads the band over the head of its conductor...
Discussing the "Prospects for New England," Harris said the number of people in the area may fall from the present 15 million to three million, because of the nation's general population shift westward and the fact that domestic trade to and from the northeast states must pass through strong competing areas...
During the first years, however, Munch's critical treatment probably won't be too gentle. Most Boston critics are just as provincial as Boston society. For 25 years they have been accustomed to one way of doing things, and the shift will be a tough one. Already, snide little references have appeared in Boston papers. Rudolph Elie of the Herald, for instance, fears that absolute disaster will result if Munch should dare to reseat the Orchestra...
...speedy military success forces him to start fulfilling his promises. To control the heavily populated and industrial South, he has had to shift his attention from rural areas to the immensely more difficult task of governing cities and running trade and industry...
...objection to this formula is that it will not respond to any major agricultural trend until five years have passed. The last ten years have been amazingly plush for agriculture, and market prices are likely to drop considerably in the future. Since the Brannan plan shifts the financial burden from the consumer to the Treasury, the immediate effect of the plan would be a large drain on the public funds. But any subsidy plan essentially involves a redistribution of income, and this becomes a question of how much income will shift from the tax-payer to the farmer...