Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...
Precluded by the nature of democracy from brilliant gestures of defiance American students have devised another method for the outlet of their political emotions. There are model Leagues of Nations, model Congresses, model Conferences. There are huge peace delegations, there are yearly hegiras to Geneva, there are pamphlets urging the Christian precepts of peace. Students discuss, suggest, construct methods for a cleanly local government, an omniscient national government, an everlasting, international peace. These are doubtless all very pleasing intellectual exercises and they may produce some excellent suggestions, but students labor under a difficulty which is well nigh insurmountable. Most undergraduates...
...football in its place. If it over becomes fashionable for him to lose entire interest in the doings of the so-called 'Varsity in favor of personal participation in a slightly less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
...radically changed. No longer does she haggle over prices or stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis Institute of Music. Proof of the company's security and artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings...
...rule. This would mean that during the latter half of 1932 as the situation became apparent to the bank superintendent there would be a forced liquidation of tremendous volume. Savings banks in New York have already discussed this openly in an effort to show that they must have an outlet for their funds. Rail bonds now absorb about $732,000,000, the third largest investment on their lists. Railroads point out that if the banks are forced to sell rail bonds it will depress the market so much that the carriers will not be able either to raise working capital...