Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas discusses the plea of many young teachers today that the typical English course "seeks by its choice of unsexed and devitalized themes, to divert the reader with mere trivialties . . . and situations alien to the vibrant happenings in the daily life of the normal boy or girl or high-school...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally deciding to divert Horner from his wife by taking him his sister. Mrs. Pinchwife (Ruth Gordon), however, learns city ways so fast that it is she, bundled up and masked, who is escorted to Mr. Homer's chambers where the play soon reaches a logical conclusion...
...hands of a railroad a freight forwarding company is not only a means of getting business for itself but also an effective weapon to use on competitors. Through, its routing power, a freight forwarder may divert its carload shipments from one road to another. That, the I. C. C. discovered last week, was precisely what Universal was currently doing. The business it used to give to Baltimore & Ohio was being diverted as rapidly as possible to Pennsylvania...
...join forces for the 1936 campaign. . . . I need not tell you there will be- there are-many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings-as they have always done-to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses...