The wastage of heat energy under present methods is appalling.
This caused the cylinder to be cooled between each stroke and led to the wastage of about four-fifths of all the steam used.
If we cannot beat him now when he bears the wastage of coming to us, we never can when we bear the wastage of going to him.
This, however, was not to be, for the wastage of men was tremendous at the moment, and so great was the necessary concentration of guns for any attack that every available battery was kept in the line.
As for the odour of the burning wastage of the fields at evening I scarcely know if I dare say it.
A much vexed question is whether it is impossible to raise the fees charged for higher education with a view to checking the wastage which results from the introduction into our schools and colleges of so much unsuitable raw material.
The question is how to prevent this ridiculous wastage of students; how to prevent the production of this disappointed man who is a student only in name.
Their patriotism and example gave a tone to the drafts sent out to replace casualties and the wastage of war, and were a credit to the stock from which they sprang.
The Veterinary Service worked well throughout; the wastage in animals was consequently small considering the distances traversed.
Promptly he dug himself in, and the battle developed into a brisk affair of give and take, involving meagre losses to both factions but an appalling wastage of ammunition.
Down this way, you know, Webster, a battle consists in a horrible wastage of ammunition at long range, and casualties of three killed and twelve wounded.
For the first time there is a real check in that deplorable wastage of population that has been going on for more than half a century.
The result of forty years' wastage of the Irish Catholic peasantry is that the proportions of Catholics to Protestants are now three to one, as against four to one in 1861.
An important work in connection with the prosecution of medical research has been the carrying on of experiments to ascertain the cause of trench fever, which in point of wastage is responsible for more than any other sickness.
The harm done by such popular writings is not so apparent in England, where they are part of the normal tissue wastage of the nation.
Yet against the prohibition of widow remarriage may be set the terrific wastage in Europe of chaste and unmarried women.
All this I see As what cannot avert; it is God's way, And wisdom is the wastage of his throne.
War is the wastage of all human flesh, And whether man be stricken on the field, Or, with the sacred itztli, offered up, The measure must be met with human blood.
It was rumored that von Hindenburg was growing restive and complaining that the wastage at Verdun would tell against the success of the campaign on the Riga-Dvinsk front, which was to open when the Baltic ice melted.
Great as was thewastage of life, it was in no way immediately decisive.
The abounding birthrate rapidly replaced the wastageof war.
The wastage from sickness was also high, while many of those who carried on in the line were tired almost to the point of collapse.
Women and children do a large part of the picking, and the wastage due to careless picking is tremendous.
No matter what apparently unfavorable condition arises and often in spite of an almost unbelievable wastage of potential life stuff, the renewal goes on, or else there is the total disappearance of the species.
Pollen is so light that it can easily be blown very great distances, and while the wastage is enormous, the process works so well that the greater part of the vegetation of the earth is thus fertilized.
Two pilots were allowed for each aeroplane, and, in addition, to provide for the wastage of war, an equal number in reserve.
The enlisting and training of pilots, in numbers sufficient for the creation of new squadrons when the wastage in the field had been made good, was a matter of pressing concern.
The maintenance of the squadrons in the field, that is, the replacing of wastage in pilots and machines, was all that was originally expected of them by the command of the Royal Flying Corps in France.
And as we all know, this wastage has in the past sapped, not only the strength of the Army, but afterwards the very life of the nation to which the soldier must sooner or later return.
This wastage is not due to any decomposition of the acetylene in contact with water, but depends on the various solubilities of the different gases which compose the product obtained from commercial calcium carbide.
The heavy demands of these two branches, coupled with the fact that infantry wastage was practically exceeding the intake of recruits, threatened a gradual disappearance of the principal arm of the Service.
Quite apart from that wastage altogether, and speaking only of such bona fide institutions as would satisfy Mr. Labouchere, they do not work.
This was due to the wastageresulting from the heavy fighting by these Brigades on the Villers-Bretonneux front.
The wastage of the Second Army had been very great.
The wastage of their Battalions had gone on faster than the inflow of fresh drafts, or the return of convalescent sick and wounded.
As the facilities for repair in the mobile workshops are strictly limited, an excessive rate of wastage among these vehicles soon dislocates the whole supply arrangements.
The wastage of troops had “exceeded all expectations.
This loosened method of defence lessened the wastage of troops from artillery fire, and in addition the system of “pill-boxes” was instituted.
Not only did our moral suffer, but in addition to fearful wastage in killed and wounded, we lost a large number of prisoners and much material.
She is quiet, and a little down, though she is anything but prone to the wastage of grief.
The Secretary of State for War now authorised the enlistment of 5000 Imperial Yeomen to make up for the wastage which had occurred in that force at the front, and further contributions of troops were also invited from the colonies.
The army, through loss by disease and death in the field, was a phantom of the army that was, and in consequence of the prodigious work that had been going forward, a proportionate amount of wastage and disorganisation had set in.
The wastage of the most precious element which production calls for--that is to say, skilled labor--is one of the most dangerous phenomena of our present economic life.
This wastage has reached to-day colossal and unheard-of dimensions and there are industrial enterprises which we cannot operate even if we had fuel and raw materials, because competent skilled labor is lacking.
If wastage of men compels him to shorten his line on the right against M, he will be immediately anxious as to whether he can dare sacrifice 4 to save 2, or whether he should run the dreadful risk of sacrificing 2 to save 4.
If wastage compels him to shorten his defensive line upon the left, he is in a similar quandary between 1 and 3.
In other words, because once you had got your men to stand these heavy local losses and to suffer heavy initial wastage, you would win your campaign in a short time, so that the high-rate wastage not being prolonged need not be feared.
On the enemy's side (neglecting wastage for the moment) there were the simplest elements of growth.
Further, the war proved even more conclusively that the wastagewas not worth while.
And there is the numerical situation of the first period clearly, and I think accurately, put, supposing the wastage to be equal in proportion throughout all the armies.
