Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
...appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. British reports said lots of bombs fell...
...Willis Dodds ("No liquor at football games"), president of Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
...Restored to WPA $125,000,000 which the House wished to divert...
...South Carolina's politicians decided that, as their share of PWA's millions, they would take $6,000,000 (as a starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud...