Word: diversionism
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Mr. and Mrs. Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the...
Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has...
"Oooooooh! A car and a handsome man with the top down!" the girls mooed enthusiastically. Asked what their favorite Spring diversion was, they promptly chanted:
That group is the team itself. Few students know the actual drudgery that goes into the building of a great gridiron machine. Beginning early in September every man on the squad, and many that did not make the Varsity, worked for over three hours a day in a hard, bruising...
Only with the appearance of an official notice threatening offenders was this popular diversion brought to an end.