Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grafts, which occasionally do not take, which usually look ugly. Last week the University of Cincinnati announced perfection of a substitute technique. Dr. Louis George Hermann, assistant professor of surgery, sprinkles flakes of chopped skin upon raw wounds. The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate. In a short time the islands of growing skin touch each other, merge and make a sightly new skin. Dr. Hermann finds that which way the skin flakes fall does not matter. Like plant seeds they orient themselves, grow outward from their "soil...
...Government issue through the Federal Land Banks one or two billion dollars worth of long-term 2½% or 3% bonds. Let the Land Banks absorb the Joint Stock Land Banks for $500,000,000. Let holders of "frozen" farm mortgages turn them in to the Land Banks for good Federal bonds and the Land Banks issue new mortgages on farm property at an interest rate of not more than i% above that paid on the bonds. Or let the Land Banks lend farmers enough to pay up their back taxes and interest and make a new and better deal...
Upon reading the Allies' demands on Germany for Reparations, he said: "If they are to collect that much from us, the world will have to absorb our exports in quantities which will ruin their trade- something the Allies cannot permit. Therefore they cannot collect the Reparations they propose...
...photography. The Roosevelt picture was taken with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which absorb part of the light and transmit the remainder to the plate. This process produces a transparency which, held to the light, shows a photograph in original color...
...would be delighted to see tutorial work absorb a larger portion of the time of students than it does now, because it develops more independence and does not stiltify students' minds by predigesting everything for them. Also it is far more flexible in dealing with individual students' needs than courses. However, trying to tutor an apathetic student is a ghastly job. No one profits by it. So I am in favor of tutoring only those who want. it, as signified by being out for honors or otherwise. The temptation to allow tutoring to develop into cramming for divisionals...