Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Chapter of the Liberty League was going to do. This last might prove the only obstacle to a movement which should, by rights, sweep across the country like "The Music Goes 'Round," or the recent yo-yo fad; but just as lack of leaders cannot be allowed to deflect the stream, lack of a plan should be lightly brushed away until officers were elected and salaries discussed to the satisfaction...
...merely honest. The electorate will undoubtedly vote against the New Deal, rather than for a constructive alternative, in the next election, just as the last one was swung by those who were voting against the depression. So that it seems wise not to nominate any extraordinary individual who will deflect attention from the main issue of the campaign onto his own ideas and personality...
Only one pitch, however, is admitted at a time. The sounds of each frequency or pitch are admitted through the filter for a small fraction of a second and deflect a spot of light, generated by a cathodes ray tube, along a horizontal line in proportion to their strength. The sport, moving back and forth as higher and higher pitched sounds with different intensities are admitted, is photographed on sensitized paper and leaves a line graph. This graph is a picture record of the noise, showing the relative loudness of each of its component parts...
...Perry, playing faultlessly all afternoon, contributed the best individual bit of the day in the final period. Held crosseyed by three Blue forwards who had sifted through the defense with the ball, Tom made a headlong dive to deflect a hard ground shot outside the post...
...silver began to coast down hill?down, down, down to last week's level which caused angry silverites to assume that the Treasury had quit buying for good. Secretary Morgenthau's announcement that he had bought more than 25 million ounces of silver in one day was aimed to deflect their wrath...