Word: outflow
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...gain was mainly due to heavy outflow in the Smackover district (Oklahoma), with lesser increases in the California, Gulf Coast, Kansas, Rocky Mountain and North Texas fields...
...matter how the undergraduate steels himself in preparation for the yearly outflow of money at the opening of the college year, the expense of "eating around" until the dining service at the Union, Memorial Hall and the clubs gets under way is always startling. Ordinarily such expenditure is accepted meekly, while the jests and jibes of the newspapers at profiteering go unheeded...
...that there is too much money in the United States, more than there would be of specie, if there were no paper substitutes. The familiar reasoning of economists is that, when there is a redundancy of the currency, prices rise, imports come in and gold flows out. The outflow of specie in 1893 and 1895 is generally looked on as a proof of the superabundance of currency. But this is not at all certain and economists have much to learn about such occurrences. One of the other evidence of too much currency is the accumulation of cash in commercial centres...
...silent man is supposed to live out his beautiful thoughts, to carry his poetry into his daily life, and make that, what others make their speeches and writings, ideally noble and beautiful. The outflow cannot exceed the supply; and if there is only so much of good in each man, if this runs away in the form of fine words, there is none left for home consumption, and vice versa. Indeed, the surest way to gain the respect and esteem of the world, and to keep it, is to say nothing, to express our wisdom, like...