Word: diverters
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Though it has apparently not been seen on the stage since 1870, it was a great success when first produced in 1696, and continued so during the 18th century. Vanbrugh wrote it, he remarked, to divert the wits of the town "and make them forget their spleen in spite of their wives and taxes...
...race track, lands in the thriving municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill, a truly superb animal, his business efficiency drops far below the expectations of his father-in-law. It finally becomes a question of the horse or submission to the rigors of the business...
...society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless provision is made for the future by re-establishing the public schools to their former position. The Federal government, under the drive of depression, has obviated many of the so-called state's rights. It can and should divert money from building an air force "second to none" to building citizens with minds capable of preserving peace...
...Washington consensus that the banking bill had been speeded to Congress to divert Senator Glass from his attack on the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief Bill. Certainly the banking bill was cleared by the White House so quickly that Governor Eccles did not have a chance to show it to the peppery little Virginia Senator in advance as he had promised. Senator Glass was hopping mad at what he considered a deliberate White House slight and took it out on Governor Eccles, accusing him of breaking his word. Governor Eccles hastily telephoned the Senator, explained that President Roosevelt...
...opening years of the twentieth century, British and German commercial interests secured a dominating position in the markets of South America. Supported by a cunning diplomatic policy, and seeing the vast possibilities of the virgin forests and rugged Andes, foreign capital began to develop these resources and to divert the ever increasing flow of trade to their own countries. Not until the third decade of this century did American interests begin to concentrate attention on the possibilities of the Latin market and to demand diplomatic assistance in the form of favorable tariff agreements. Yet the majority of these negotiations failed...