Word: deflected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gate, south end of the Maginot-Westwall stalemate, or through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing 30 Ibs. but only 1/20 in. thick, this gear was more psychological than practical. It would deflect only spent rifle or pistol bullets, was useless against aimed fire or grenades...
When the sun comes out during a shower, the drops of rain deflect the sun's rays and split them up into their seven spectral colors. There is no physical reason why a rainbow should not be seen when the moon shines, but such rainbows have been rarely described. Last week, Professor Armin Kohl Lobeck of Columbia University, urged by his scientific friends, modestly but firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls...
...electrified particles. In the tenuous upper atmosphere of earth, far higher than any balloon has ascended, there are several layers of such ions which increase in density during sunspot peaks. This is to be expected since sunspots are accompanied by heavier ultra violet bombardment. These electrified layers serve to deflect most radio waves, curve them around the bulge of earth. In radio's pioneer days, when only one layer was known, it was called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer after its discoverers. Now the electrified region as a whole is more generally referred to as the ionosphere...
...Small particles like dust, fortuitous aggregations of molecules and droplets of water tend to deflect short wave lengths of light which approximately "fit" them, while longer wave lengths curl around these small obstacles. Long infra-red rays go farther through fog than visible light and still longer radio waves can go through buildings. In the visible spectrum, blue light is shorter in wave length than red. In the case of the evening sun, the blue components are scattered in all directions, and this subtraction makes the sun look red. But the blue light is scattered again & again in the atmosphere...
...Action report whose economic implications scared many a conservative Baptist. Also put over for revision was a 15-point "Code of Professional Ethics" for Baptist ministers which contained the following observations: "It is unethical to accept the pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church from its cooperating affiliations. . . . It is considered unethical for one minister to make professional calls on members of other churches. . . . One must not malign another minister or besmirch his reputation. If all the truth must be spoken, let it be spoken in ministerial affection." To succeed President Franklin...