Word: detours
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...This detour into pre-atomic technology may not always be necessary. Beta rays (streams of electrons) are nothing but high-voltage, direct current electricity. If a pile could be designed to give chiefly beta rays, it would be comparatively easy to coax them into wires...
Dean of Radcliffe College Mildred P. Sherman last night did not place the responsibility on women students for the current collegiate detour on the pinted path of dalliance. "I think college men are drinking too much," she asserted...
Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
...three hotels were snapped up, empty cells in the jail were used. Private citizens rented their spare rooms, put four farmers in a bed. But hundreds of the invaders had to sleep in their cars, or nowhere. Cars were so jammed in one Yorkton street, that firemen had to detour to reach a fire...
...roadside area was littered with the wreckage of 600 German vehicles-staff cars, trucks, gun limbers, amphibious vehicles, big mobile cranes and antitank artillery. After running into a Red artillery roadblock, the Germans had tried to turn around in search of a detour...