Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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scope for trade which must be found to absorb the exports of Germany, represented by her reparations, if you can get them, which absorption alone will enable reparations to be paid without bringing us face to face with some of the keenest competition which we shall ever have suffered...
...that each student confine himself to one course, and given to it all of the time he intends to put on study. The reason for this is that years of experience have shown that the regular course, which in most cases meets five times a week, is sufficient to absorb the student's attention, whereas two courses tend to keep his work below a good standard in both courses. Two, however, may be taken, but no student may count toward a degree more than two, which is equivalent to one full course in the College...
...down in building is apparent from mounting prices for construction materials and growing restlessness of both skilled and unskilled labor. New contracts are expected to begin to decrease by July next. This may not be an unmixed evil, since the volume of construction now scheduled is sufficiently great to absorb all skilled labor and materials. The question is, whether building prosperity, can be stabilized and its duration extended at present price levels, or whether we shall have immediately increased profits, followed next fall by a slump...
...causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about 115 degrees. The effect is to reduce the congestion, just as gelatin is melted. After a few treatments the heavy breathing subsides and the lungs are able to absorb more oxygen. Twenty-minute treatments are given twice a day. In unskilled hands the treatment is dangerous, and the use of a direct current might be fatal...
...that the roads are back in private hands, the old malady has begun to develop again. The country is too big to support two hundred roads on a profit-making basis. Therefore, we have the cry for mergers. Let the strong roads absorb the weak; guard against the old game of stockjobbing, secret rebates, " milking" and " watering," but give the people the benefit of a trust without its monopoly privileges...