Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated, it will not absorb much heat from the earth. The heat it absorbs from the air and the sun can be lost by radiation. In principle, it is something like a thermos bottle for cold drinks...
Commented one: "Only if they have the mental ability to absorb the knowledge and the physical immunity against the social atmosphere. Same goes for my daughters." Nearly 58 percent wish their daughters to go to college. Comments: "If that will help support me." "No! No! a thousand times...
...their tips with an upward motion. When bismuth powders or pulverized lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement they discovered was spiral and (viewed from above) clockwise. Particles traveled 1½ inches per minute within...
...declares "disappear rapidly from the blood stream after their injection and are found lodged in the various organs: first and above all in the lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal-is an absolutely harmless procedure which produces no local or general reactions, such as fever, chills, or headache...
...Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney, author of the section on Boxing in America in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mr. Tunney on the forthcoming Louis-Schmeling fight: "Schmeling really has no physical fortification which should prove impervious against the champion's attack, though he can absorb lots of punishment...