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Only the most niggling of Mr. Hoover's critics would suggest that he had shunted the Ambassador to Geneva to nip a nascent Dawes-for-President boom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the years, the blood vessels had quadrupled their capacity; they had shunted enough blood around the aorta block to keep Gormley alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than a month he had shunted aside most other business while he consulted secretaries, statisticians, counselors and Cabinet members about the speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked down the main river and over toward the chute toward which the Columbus bluffs had shunted them.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

Besides, it wasn't his health that had shunted them both out here into the desert, and she ought to be ashamed of herself for treating him the way she did.

From Starr, of the Desert by Bower, B. M.