Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the signs that the boom is increasingly in danger of bursting, any increases in the price of goods would backfire in the not-too-distant future. Consumers are finding it difficult to absorb current production, and the retailers are finding it hard to sell their goods. An R. H. Macy advertisement appealing to manufacturers to cut their prices is the direct result of a bad Easter season. Combined with a presidential request for lower costs, and a warning from their own N.A.M. that they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete...
...teacher of composition, she is exacting, enthusiastic and compelling. She likes to absorb her pupils' lives completely, is apt to beguile them into carrying her packages, ask them to drive her car, or come in the middle of the night to do copying for her. Students either enter into the spirit of things or leave. Nadia Boulanger is a classicist who regards classicism as an attitude and a discipline, rather than a slavish conformity to formula. Says she: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...
...compilation of a large pile of notes, he says, indicates a lot of work but is no sign that anything has been learned. To absorb knowledge a student must master his economics or history himself and not rely on pages of printed words to do the job, Perry points out whenever he is advising a pupil...
...Seniors, interviewed during the last year were about all its one Director and two Executive Secretaries could handle. If more Sophomores and Juniors are to use the facilities of the Office, which they should do if they want to reap the greatest gains, it must expand its size to absorb them. And it must also expand its aims with an eye to getting more students actual jobs, if Harvard graduates are to keep step with the horde of graduates from other colleges throughout the country...
...Continental. But Continental was so suspiciously quiet that Detroit guessed it was glad to get rid of the job. Car makers felt that Continental could make motors faster than K-F could use them and so could not make money on the comparatively small production K-F could absorb. Nor was the outlook for bigger K-F production bright. The straight-from-the-shoulder facts last week were that, even in a still tight auto market, Kaisers and Frazers were not selling too well...