Word: sapping
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...effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes that the Chilvester House will, after all, have to be equipped with drains...
...near the end of January come near admitting that Harvard men are not so attractive, amiable, and delightful as she was wont to feel. There is something about countless evenings over scrambled eggs and sausages in the Somerset or milk and ginger bread in the kitchen that tends to sap even the most vital girl's interest in vague, suave, sophisticated, even brilliant young men-of whom the Vagabond once was one. But he can't tell her this-she must find this out for herself. And when it is all over, when the white twill has been laid away...
Meanwhile Commander Waters loudly resisted the Government's attempt to sap the B. E. F. "The $100,000 offer is an effort to send us back to our home town so we can starve again," he proclaimed. "The Government isn't giving you any thing. It's lending it to you and you'll have to pay it back." His followers stiffened and the break-up seemed about to fail...
...open cockpit types. Two observation pilots showed an absorption of 15% CO in the blood. A pilot and observer in a bombing plane showed 10% absorption. Such amounts of the gas, if not retained too long, might cause nothing serious; but frequent subjection over long periods of time might sap the pilot's strength and alertness. Exhaust stacks were redesigned to lead the gases down and away from the cockpit. Thereafter all CO tests within the plane were negative...
...China is a sensitive plant, dependent on the weather. In summer when the weather is warm, Chinese politicos take the field. The Nationalist government must bend all its energies to preserving its existence amid ceaseless civil war. With the first frosts the troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town...