Word: drain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart money went down the drain at Ithaca Saturday, but at least the chalk players who backed the Band were rewarded. "Does your band always play like that?" one awed Cornellian said after the "best in the business" had finished its between-halves Big Red medely...
Columbia wasn't the only thing that went down the drain Saturday. The old, all-male cheering section also came to grief in a swirl of skirts and shrill cries of glee from thousands of female throats...
Many undergraduates traveled twice or more through the crowded lines in the basement of the Union yesterday and Monday while others bluffed their way into midfield seats by falsifying class standing. Because of this drain, all remaining Senior and Junior applicants will be pushed downfield near the north goal line...
...government intervention in industry. Telephones, banks, trains, insurance, fisheries and meat-packing plants are all government-owned enterprises in Uruguay. With accumulated sterling, the government plans to buy more Uruguayan railroads from the British. Businessmen already complain of a growing new bureaucracy, of obnoxious new controls, and the drain on Uruguay's resources...
...whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...