Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...
Combat duty did not change the orderliness of his ways. He walked the Admiral's deck, by his own estimate covering eight to ten miles a day, frequently stripped to the waist to absorb the sun's healthful rays. A war correspondent cracked: "Spruance will win the war in a walk-literally." Vice Admiral William L. Calhoun, chief of Pacific supply, remarked with admiration: "A cold-blooded fighting fool...
...they are given eight to 16 weeks of instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic with the aid of films, picture books, simple readers - enough to provide them with what the Army calls "functional literacy," a standard equivalent to a 4th-Grade education. The average soldier takes eight weeks to absorb this training, and is then sent to a regular training center. Of the 10% that fail the course, a negligible few may have special capacities, such as ability to handle a bulldozer, and are allowed to remain in the Army...
Lady Astor: The Government should not grant dwindling paper stock to "art study" magazines. The men who scan nude prints are mostly "not art students." How much paper do such publications absorb...
...electrolytic fluid (sulfuric acid) and is recharged by passing a current through the fluid to build up the potential of the positive pole. But the new battery is made of new materials that cut weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents current leakage-an old storage-battery failing...