Word: draining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmes' advocation of a closer connection between the coach and the student body by means of a position on the faculty is sound, and is already a necessity in the poorer schools because of less altruistic principles. The expense of an outside coach creates an exhausting drain on the athletic fund and it is often the case that he is a member of the faculty for purely financial reasons. In many of the larger private schools the coach is in closer communion with his pupils because of the mere fact that the administrator of the playing field overshadows the bookworm...
Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
...United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy that more resembles the activity of a Cortez than of a government which boasts of its sound good business policy...
...most conspicuous abscess in the world resides in the lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...