Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan was shaken by the greatest natural disaster since the Tokyo earthquake and fire of 1923. But the holocaust at Hakodate failed to divert the Japanese Foreign Office, even temporarily, from its international maneuvers on half a dozen different fronts...
...tripe that is shoved at them. When the moment of awakening comes they will simply refuse to swallow any more; and then a process of revolutionary disgorging will commence which will create a highly precarious situation for Herr Adolph. The only way of avoiding this situation is to divert the minds of the people by war; and since war forms a cardinal point in the foreign policy of Hitler, it may be assumed that he will not neglect to employ it as a means of relieving pressure at home. The Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, then, emerges...
Richard Whitney did not have to be told that he was going to Washington in behalf of a lost cause. Nothing could divert the Administration from its determination to put the Stock Exchange into a Federal straitjacket. All President Whitney could hope for in the political battle ahead was to keep that strait-jacket from squeezing the breath of life entirely out of the stock trading business...
...from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias to a new table...
...permanent success. Since this is the case, the cause of the Nazis has been considerably strengthened, and if a purely nominal Fascist government is established, it is difficult to see just what the powers can do about it--except to utilize it as a safety valve which may divert the local magnesium-throwers...