wastage

This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

Seen in this light, infant mortality and the cruel wastage of disease were viewed with complacence.

And America continued rich and fat until the World War wastage shrank her to skin and bones again.

Every hour of youth is precious and this wastage is unspeakably expensive.

We have finished what we have to say about the use of food for the repair of bodily wastage.