Word: divertible
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After "Fair Harvard," the band made a half-hearted effort to divert the spectators from the Square, but their attempt soon failed, and the whooping students spilled down Garden St. toward Radcliffe, stopping only to dodge police and frighten the ushers at the University Theatre...
...recent years, however, University Hall has vetoed any such solicitation for general athletic funds. The Administration has felt that an Athletic Department campaign would divert too much money from the overall alumni drive which is conducted by class agents...
Power. "We have power out of productivity; a part is set aside to make sure that the treasure house of freedom will not be pillaged. We do not like to divert human effort to nonproductive purposes, and it requires a strong sense of duty to apply, as we are doing, more than a tenth of all we produce to national defense. Our Government is striving to bring about conditions which might safely enable us to reduce this nonproductive diversion...
...Guglielmo, would solve this by making the Yard into a traffic circle. He would divert all Arlington-bound traffic through Quincy street, thereby reversing its present direction and make Massachusetts Ave. one way Bostonward. Morton suggests that this plan would also require building an unsightly overpass for freshmen on their way to Union meals, since they might have trouble battling the madding crowd of mechanized citizens on the ground level...
...same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side, and its effect is evaluated. All the deviations are "integrated" (put together and added up) by electronic computing devices. So the pilot, says Ryan, always knows where...