Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show the mechanism of the body there is a display of the lungs showing that they hold only some four to six quarts of air, but have about 120 sq. yd. of surface with which to absorb oxygen. There is a model to demonstrate how the 10-oz. heart moves a total of 20 tons of blood daily. After the "Man" exhibit, most interest focused on the physical culture section. This shows with models and pictures the various laws which govern the structure and functions of the body. Scenes depict how various peoples and bodies at various times get their...
...reorganization will result in a shake down of inflated assets and liabilities, in a smaller, more compact pyramid. "Besco" will yield its supremacy to a new company. Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., which will absorb some of the old companies, control others. Its shares will probably be listed on the New York Stock Exchange where "Besco" has been an unpopular ''dog," selling below $5 a share...
...fortune from patent medicines and cosmetics, among them Nuxated Iron and Blondex, etc. He visited Havana in 1928 because he heard the climate would relieve his sinus affliction. Constitutionally unable to remain inactive-or to stomach Cuban bread-he started an "American" bakery. But this could not for long absorb a man who served in Europe on President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence of Lithuania. The Havana Post...
...world's most fertile artistic production in less than fifteen weeks must fail. It is not the fault of the instructors who must present this mass of material. In order to include even the outstanding artistic works of this period they are forced to require their students to absorb such a large list of names and facts that it would be impossible to expect any intelligent assimilation or appreciation...
...business of the B. I. S. will include the actual printing and sending forth by General Manager Pierre Quesnay of more than $300,000,000 in German reparations bonds within the next few weeks; and in subsequent years, as the markets of the world are able to absorb them-approximately...