Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much...
...Nationalists also girded up their war loins and prepared to run with exceeding swiftness into the fray, thus to aid their ally, Feng, to distract the attention of Chang Tsung-chang and Sun Chuan-fang...
...have taken graduate courses elsewhere, merely an appendage whose sole connection with the university is the fact that he sits in its class rooms and listens to its lecturers. While there is no desire either on the part of the University or the men themselves that graduate students distract their attention from their work by engaging in undergraduate activities, neither is there any reason why they should feel themselves isolated from all phases of university life. A man may or may not care to look upon Harvard as a continuation of his undergraduate career but in no case...
...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...