Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History is one example of a field which may see surpluses soon, the Provost said. On the other hand, Physics can probably absorb many more students that...
This 1948-1949 excess of income over expenses was achieved only because of a $508,742 surplus accrued in the University's administrative offices. Acting like a holding company for its numerous departments, the University was able to accumulate this $508,742, and thus absorb the deficit budgets of some departments...
Question of Precedent. Although it was obviously true that pensions would cost the steelmen money, the fact finders had agreed among themselves that steel's profits were large enough to absorb the full cost of the pension and welfare plans. Nevertheless, Steelman Fairless was on firm ground when he insisted that this was a matter to be thrashed out at the bargaining table. That was a part of the original agreement...
Paraphrase the Weather. In The Primitive, the author is betrayed by his subject. Feikema wrote in his earlier books of the natural elements, and Nature was adequate to absorb his emotions and his song. He was always likable and often convincing when he described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid...
...pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...