Word: divert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts to divert the public mind, Joseph Paul-Boncour. the new Foreign Minister and great League of Nations apostle, announced that German agents are busy in Alsace-Lorraine fomenting "Hitlerian intrigues" and that orders have been given for their arrest...
...come from the Faculty. Although a large number of Faculty members live in Cambridge and although by contributing to the drive they aid Boston charities which will benefit Cambridge, yet it would seem that they have more intimate connections with the University. The Faculty might divert part of the six thousand dollars from the Fund to the aid of students on "border-line" scholarships, students who are forced to spend too much time on jobs that they receive but a minimum of the benefit from education...
Those, then, who blame the University for their stomach disorders, and criticize the quality of food served in the Union and in the Houses, would do well to divert their critical energies to the state and federal governments. Upon these, who are really the guilty parties in a never-ending crime, much spleen may well be vented, in the hope that eventually, the diet of Americans may not consist of a balanced intake of arsenic and other assorted poisons...
...would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when it reaches normal. For cotton and tobacco farmers, the bill provided both penalties for overproduction and bounty payments to encourage them to divert unneeded land to other uses; for rice, quotas were set on the basis of domestic consumption...
...assumed "supreme power . . . in the name of the National Army." At week's end he inaugurated a "national political purge" to punish those who have "abused power." This led observers to think that the military junta had sacrificed ousted President Páez as a scapegoat to divert attention from Ecuador's internal unrest...