Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed system is inexpedient. - (a) Very expensive. - (b) Unwisely increases the civil service. - (c) Would divert public attention from more pressing questions. - (1) Finance. - (2) Tariff. - (3) Labor. - (d) Irrigation might be introduced for political motives. - (e) Gov't construction is usually lavish: Forum, XII, 740. - (f) Gov't control not economical: ibid. - (g) Example of India not applicable: Whitney's "United States...
...contest is in progress in the Connecticut Legislature to stay and divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...
There is a contest, in progress in the Connecticut legislature to stay and to divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...
...Springfield this afternoon at two o'clock. This evening they will sing between the dances at the first of a series of Springfield assemblies; this one is in honor of Yale and Harvard men. During the evening a double quartet will go to the quarters of our eleven and divert them with some singing...