Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary exchange, due to the instability of the dollar, is the immediate cause of an almost complete paralysis of trade with the countries below the Equator...
...prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation. This would shunt all traffic to the dormitories, where it belongs and leave the pavement before Widener free for initiations and the police escort of the visiting ambassador from Liberia...