Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly up popped that fiery Roman Syndicalist President Arturo di Marsanich of the National Confederation of Fascist Syndicates of Commerce. While Il Duce sat expressionless as stone, Signor Marsanich cried: "There is only one logical consequence of Fascist corporative policy: the Council of Corporations should absorb the Chamber of Deputies and become the sole legislative assembly. . . . Italy will then have an assembly of men qualified to legislate on economic matters as well as those qualified to legislate in the fields of ethics and politics...
...explained what was ailing the cattle. It was not alkali disease, said the Department, but selenium poisoning. Selenium is the light-sensitive substance used in photoelectric cells, and is closely related chemically to sulphur. From selenium compounds discovered in the soil of the affected districts, wheat and other plants absorb the poisonous element. The Department's investigators found that if sulphur-harmless alike to plant and consumer-were added to the soil, the plants would absorb that instead of the selenium. Last week Dr. Albert Fred Woods, director of the Department's scientific work, said he was encouraged...
...leprosy become clearly outlined, much as if they were painted in blue on the skin. A few minutes later the entire body becomes blue. Within a week or two after this drug has been injected the hard and lumpy swellings of leprosy undergo softening. Shortly afterward they begin to absorb. In a large percentage of cases in a period of a few months all lesions of leprosy disappear. . . . The blue color disappears about six weeks after the last of six injections has been taken...
...mark system grew up to prevent this subsidy being squandered on the undeserving. Homogeneity of purpose could no longer be assumed in the undergraduate body, but a certain standard of fitness might be demanded. The Harvard mark system certifies that each student is worth his keep. He can either absorb the specified modicum of facts, or he has paid his pittance to the big bad Wolff...
Professor Willstätter's method of segregating enzymes is beautifully simple. The enzymes are colloids. White clay (kaolin) filters absorb certain kinds of colloids, alumina filters certain other kinds. Enzymes, which pass through both alumina and clay filters, have a third set of characteristics. By shrewd use of colloidal physics and chemistry Professor Willstatter segregated the three important enzymes of pancreatic fluid-lipase which acts on fats, amylase which acts on carbohydrates, trypsin which acts on proteins...