Word: shifting
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...shift in the Freshman class officers has had to be made on account of Clement Duane Coady, vice-president, and John Randolph Burke, secretary treasurer, due to scholastic deficiencies...
...Shift Is Radical...
Bishop Lawrence was originally scheduled to speak next Wednesday, but because Monday was a convenient date for him, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, consented to shift his Reading to Wednesday evening...
Sentiment urges a development of a great commercial navy, but it cannot shift the advantage of the English ship owner. Proximity of coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...
...testimony of the defense was concluded and showed an effort to shift the responsibility for the putsch onto the shoulders of ex-Reichswehrgeneral von Lossow and von Seissermann, ex-Chief of the Bavarian State Police. According to the evidence, they had backed down at the last moment without giving any hint of their intentions...