Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General Enoch Hebert Crowder, lately retired U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, was a very good diplomat. Modern diplomacy, especially between the U. S. and Cuba, is more a matter of business than bons mots. U. S. investors pay two-thirds of Cuba's wages. U. S. markets absorb 80% of Cuba's exports. In addition to keeping these business relations smooth, General Crowder could often say "I know" about Cuba's private affairs. He aided in electoral reforms, in a financial crisis. To replace General Crowder in Cuba, some one was wanted who could keep smooth...
...them for instance, would no more think of studying without a glass and bottle at hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health we must cede ourselves the plam: Eli is in his prime, and John, some years older, has passed has. But his decline has something of the splendor of Imperial Rome. Yale Alumni Weekly...
...stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible...
...theory is that certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer are caused by germs that can grow only in the "absence of free oxygen. The corollary of this theory is that if the body tissues are made to absorb and carry enough air, the oxygen will prevent such germs developing. So Dr. Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others...