Word: draining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of the novel in life", he said, "is to stimulate the imagination when the supply of imaginative energy falls short. That deficiency makes itself evident in all our lives in proportion to the drain on our faculties by outside duties. Everybody knows the feeling of vacancy, inefficiency, and even inaptitude, which comes when one's imaginative stock has run low. That is the time when he wants to read a novel, to see a play, or to go to a motion picture. The superficial feeling is that he does it because he is bored, just as the superficial feeling...
Approximately $3,000,000 will be necessary for this new plant, but in view of the drain on the public incurred by recent campaigns for endowment funds and other causes, it has been decided not to launch a campaign, but to depend on personal donations to raise the required money...
...fact that immigration to this country had attained such enormous proportions and was of such a deplorably low character that it was no longer possible to assimilate the newcomers. They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which no amount of legislative surgery could drain, until at last the physicians clearly saw that the only cure lay in destroying the disease which fed it, in effectively limiting immigration. Since that time, the abscess has shrunk noticeably. The fresh supplies of labor, however, are no longer forthcoming and industry is suffering accordingly...
...revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...
...then, it may be asked, has the United States for so long maintained a "favorable" balance sheet and been an exporting country? The answer is that the difference in value of the goods exchanged has been made up in various 'invisible" ways. Among these are the permanent drain of money (purchasing power) in the form of remittances of immigrants to the "old folks at home", and the sums spent by American tourists for "services" (eg. transportation, hotels, etc.). But by far the largest item is that for "services" in carrying our goods abroad in foreign bottoms, for which...