Word: expendable
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...They can exert from six to ten times as much power for a short time as they ordinarily use, without injury. The horsepower was defined by James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, 150 years ago, and is a practical unit in measuring the energy that one horse can expend continuously throughout a working day; but it takes no account of the reserve power over short periods, which may amount, as the tests show, to more than 10 h.p. per animal...
...appropriate such a sum of money as seems necessary for the expenses of the Post Office. Business may suddenly increase so that the Post Office has to handle much more mail than was anticipated. The income of the Post Office increases proportionately, but the amount of money it may expend in handling the increased business remains exactly the same?the amount which Congress had appropriated...
Once you forgive the producer of this film for his selection of some of the members of his cast, you can expend any amount of superlatives of praise upon the film...
Both countries face a daily rising expenditure of about $100,000 for the direct cost of occupation. The Germans, too, are being forced to expend large credits on coal and food, but their hindering tactics are not so costly as the Franco-Belgian Ruhr administration...
...students from the University of Louvain, sent here by the Hoover Relief Commission. When the Commission had finished its relief work, it had still a large amount of money to dispose of. In an effort to use this money as its donors would have wished, the Commission decided to expend it by sending American students to Belgian universities and men from Belgium to this country. As a result there are twelve American students in Belgium and thirty-four Belgians are scattered through such colleges as the University of Chicago, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and this University...