Word: deflected
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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...
...driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...
...that Lingle had been murdered on orders of the North Side Aiello-Zuta gang, that consequent police activity had damaged Gangster Capone's vice and gambling business on the South Side and that the "turning up" of Brothers was simply a Capone device to smooth public outrage and deflect police scrutiny...