Word: divert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same terms as with other foreign countries and our dominions; and, while welcoming a definition of fishing areas and fishing rights on the Russian coast, it is unable to approve the treaty which, instead of providing a genuine contribution toward solving the problem of unemployment, threatens to divert resources which are urgently needed for national and imperial development; and which, amongst other objections, contemplates that the British taxpayers should be made liable for further loans to the Russian State, raised by means of the guarantee of the British Government as a condition upon which any part of the private claims...
Besides these college activities there are legions of other interests open to those who have money and the stamp of the private school. Dances, theatres, the hospitality of many hostesses, and the fellowship of a great number of pleasure-disposed undergraduate friends all tend to divert the student from his work...
...Hagedorn, after recalling that the need for a drama building at the University was felt even 20 years ago, makes the statement that Professor Baker "has offered to raise the money himself, but the authorities at Harvard, evidently believing that such an effort on his part might divert funds which they desired to secure for other purposes, barred every effort...
...producing plays, painting scenery, ex perimenting with lighting, etc. Ever since, he has been pleading for such a building, and pleading in vain. I know that he has offered to raise the money himself, but the authorities at Harvard, evidently believing that such an effort on his part might divert funds which they desired to secure for other purposes, barred every effort. Other universities have offered him everything that he wanted in the way of equipment if he would only come to them. He refused, as you said in your editorial, out of sheer loyalty to Harvard, hoping against hope...
...repeat that these matters must not be permitted to divert the attention of the public from the vital questions now before them. I venture, therefore, to express the hope that the nominee of the Republican Party will see fit by some explicit declaration to join in entirely removing this topic from the field of political debate...