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Word: shunted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social program ardently wooed the Negro vote, arguing that the New Deal's attention to Negro relief needs had actually operated to shunt Negroes out of normal productive enterprise into a status of a separate relief economy. A section on Housing demanded the stimulation of private enterprise to build 4,656,000 needed housing units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Revival Day | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Romani, Luigi Beccali; in Boston. Eight years ago Venzke ran a 4:10 in Manhattan for a world's indoor record, for a time stayed out in front, but finally gave way to Bill Bonthron, Cunningham, others. For last week's meet, Boston meetmakers tried to shunt him into the half-mile, but Venzke said the mile or no go. In the running he trailed for seven laps, then burst in front. In the eleventh (final) lap, Cunningham broke from third place in pursuit, failed by a foot to catch the man who had not beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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