Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remained throughout Great Britain last week, the King-Emperor himself made wise provision for the worst. Realizing that matters requiring his signature or decision were piling up, His Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber...
...Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...
...House. This is in every way unfortunate. It is unfortunate in that it seems to be a breach of good falich. It is further unfortunate in that it makes the altogether fine if not altogether timely Disarmament Proposal appear to have been in part prompted by a desire to divert public attention from Central American affairs that a rather questionable policy might not be hindered by public opprobrium...
...feel confident that once men acquire the club table system, they will continue, because in the first place, they will have such companionship as to divert their attention from the common occupation of criticizing their food. And Secondly, when one men have eaten in groups, they dislike to split up and they can't move the table group elsewhere...
Usually the income is insufficient. The ambitious builder is forced to construct anew to gain some funds which he may divert to pay defaults on the first building...