Word: divert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most vital part of any true university which is to be more than a mere vocational school is of course its undergraduate college, which offers a general education in the liberal arts; but this need not detract from the importance of the various graduate schools, or divert attention from the character of the specialized services which they render. In the present instance, to these who are responsible for the increased growth and influence of the Harvard Business School, are due the congratulations of all who realize the dependence of the country's economic health upon business success, and upon character...
...answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease of public interest in literature is probably responsible for the flood of mediocre work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert some of the celestial fire which animates their search for the modern holy grail toward reducing the quantity and raising the quality or present-day reading matter they could render this country and the rest of the world a real and immediate service...
Diplomatic firmness and good temper ended a disagreeable chapter in Anglo-American relations. Two years ago British shipping interests charged that the American consular officials at Newcastle-on-Tyne had exceeded their authority by attempting to divert passengers from British to American shipping lines. The British Foreign Office insisted that the two accused officials be transferred from Newcastle, and canceled the exequaturs (official consular recognition) of Slater and Brooks, Consul and Vice Consul of the U. S. The U. S. State Department instituted three separate inquiries, which in each case failed to substantiate the charges. The British Government, however, stood...
...Liberal Party of Asquith, which he had so recently abandoned, said nothing. At the eleventh hour it put up a candidate of its own, Scott Duckers, who?as everyone knew?had not the ghost of a chance, who could divert no Labor votes, no normal Conservative votes, but might be counted on to catch some of the votes that the energetic Churchill was scooping in from the highways and the byways...
...certainly seems that the Prince of Wales is dealt with unnecessarily harshly by the English press. As though the life of the heir to the British throne were not hard enough anyhow, the engaging Prince has been practically forbidden by the newspapers to divert himself with horsemanship--all on account of a few paltry falls and broken bones which every horseman experiences at one time or other. For the British, one is led to believe, take their royalty quite seriously. As the Evening Standard says, "it is one of the penalties of his position that he cannot regard himself entirely...