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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of late, too, the unproductiveness of our taxes, and the uneasiness of the public creditors in the United States, has not escaped his observation.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Sparks, Jared

Perhaps he would have followed out the suggestion, but for the intervention of so many years of unproductiveness in the height of his powers, and his subsequent too early death.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

In order to obviate the unproductiveness of the generating plant during the greater part of the day, electricity supply undertakings sought to develop the “daylight” load.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

Like seasons come round, and, like productiveness or unproductiveness, healthy or epidemic diatheses, attend them.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden