Word: outletting
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...people felt that behind it all was a sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
...appeal of the Klan came to a people suffering from the hysteria of the World War. Those who had enjoyed power in citizens' committees which forced the purchase of Liberty Bonds, intimated German sympathizers and hounded slackers, saw in the Klan a continued outlet for their patriotism. . . . But far more numerous were those who cherished the racial and religious prejudices of their ancestors...
...Devore). Newspaper critics objected aggrievedly to the palpable injustices to their trade in this invention. It is not on the records that a motion picture has ever reincarnated newspaper life with decent reality. Cowboys, apaches, and residents of Newport have probably far more grievous protests. They simply lack an outlet. Critics caviled in this case because cub reporters do not write editorials under their signatures on the front pages. This cub, finally fired, won fame by capturing a highwayman by masquerading as the highwayman himself. All this in the spirit of broad farce that is always carefree and occasionally comic...
...might of the pen having far surpassed the menace of the sword, it is hardly surprising that an age over-supplied with scribblers should invent a new outlet for ink. What better diversion than further to usurp the functions of the sword...
...glacial times, when the ice sheet still blocked the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, there were two southerly outlets to the Great Lakes system, the present Wabash and Desplaines-Illinois valleys, both leading to the Mississippi. The latter ultimately robbed the former and a vast river, called Warren River after the engineer who traced its old scourway, carried the entire system's outlet. The Chicago canal follows that scourway, deepened but a few feet. There was, in the Warren River's day, a "Lake Chicago" spreading out over the present state of Michigan ; Huron, Erie and Ontario were a "Lake...