Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...abnormally the total spending and inflate prices. To spend it then, when the Government reduces its expenditures, will tend to keep up the total rate of buying to a normal level and therefore prevent stagnation and depression. The money which is invested in Liberty Bonds will serve as a reservoir into which our surplus purchasing power may now be diverted and stored, to be released again when the war is over...
...early for undergraduates to consider what service they can give toward the prosecution of the war during the long vacation. No able-bodied man need be idle this summer in face of the demand for hundreds of thousands of workers from farms, railroads and shipyards. There is no reservoir of skilled labor to fill the needs of these trades. Unskilled men must be trained and of these the college man is best fitted on account of his education to acquire quickly the necessary ability. But a partly finished college education is no "Open Sesame" to a position of command. College...
...have gone into national service after admission to the undergraduate classes but has also included a diminution of more than 3,000 in this year's entering class. The colleges have been hit, therefore, in their source of supply as well as in their main reservoir...
Fenway Court may be reached by taking the Subway to Park and transferring there to any Huntington avenue car marked Brookline, Jamaica Plain, South Huntington, Reservoir, Newton Boulevard, or Allston...
There is good skating today at Brookline Reservoir; Spy. Pond, Arlington; Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill; Ell Pond, Melrose; Gibson street Playground; Public Gardens; Wood Island Park; Columbus avenue Playground; North Brighton Playground; Broadway Field, Somerville; and on Charles River, opposite the Newell boat-house...