Word: draining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repairing. Many deaf people drive automobiles with safety and skill, many of them our own graduates. I understand a few of them have driven automobiles for hire; but, in our own institution, we do not encourage students to own automobiles, as we feel that it is too great a drain on their resources. Nor do we teach automobile repairing or driving. A number of our students have driven their own cars during the summer or driven for their parents, and I have never heard cf any who had any serious difficulty in driving successfully. I have been glad to give...
...announcing the appointment of Commendatore* Giacomo de Martino, Italian Ambassador to Japan, to represent His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III at Washington in place of Prince Gelasio Gaetani, resigned. The latter returns to Rome to do what a long line of kings, emperors, popes, dukes, nobles could not do?drain the great Pontine marshes near Rome...
...than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop out of the league. Are the older men never to drain the sweet cup of victory? . . . . --Boston Herald
Thus far, only an infinitesimal part of America's huge gold hoard has been drawn abroad. It is by no means certain that the movement will long continue ; even if it should, it would take a long time to drain away the huge gold surplus now in the country...
Motorists who drain good oil out of their crank cases...