Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congregationalist Yuasa's new Christian college can be counted on to absorb more of the U.S. than dollars. Last week, while he worked at his desk at Japan's Doshisha University, which he now heads, Yuasa received a call from the U.S. Military Government asking the loan of some of his professors to give Japanese tax collectors a few pointers in bookkeeping. Said Hachiro Yuasa, smiling: "They realize that we ... know the American way of doing things...
...recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under the treaty without our consent, and the Congress, through its control of appropriations, has that situation under its control...
...first atomic bomb, reporters were being shown around the crater at "Trinity," birthplace of the Atomic Age. The crater, still surrounded by a high wire fence, is still radioactive. A man lying down in it for only a few hours would get all the radiation he could safely absorb in a week...
...good example of the interaction of research and clinical study is the work of Rawson's group and of Dr. L. D. Marinelli on the treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine. Since the thyroid gland eagerly absorbs iodine (which it uses to make a hormone), doctors have hoped that a cancerous thyroid would absorb radioactive iodine 131 in sufficient quantity to kill the unruly cells. Unfortunately, this effort was none too successful. The normal thyroid took up nearly all the iodine. The cancerous thyroid cells, particularly the metastases in distant parts of the body, took up so little...
...Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...