Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their thick skins are double, with oil compartments between to absorb the shock of depth charges, which must explode within 20 ft. of them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production...
...majority of music critics today fill their columns with superficial talk about conductors and soloists, it means that something that would otherwise absorb their energies has gone dead on them. They are in the familiar nightmare dilemma of being forced to address a huge, hushed audience with nothing whatsoever to say. In other words, the time has passed when the comparative greatness of contemporary composers was a fighting proposition, and critics were looked to for real leadership in the matter of opinion. So much facile and bewilderingly unintelligible music has been turned out in the last decade that critics...
...other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering committee rooms...
...must not absorb your space to handle the interpretation that "the Emperor might well emerge himself as a wise and statesman-like ruler," other than to express regret that a man whom I admire for years of factual reporting has joined the ranks of others who feel we could use the Emperor as a guidepost, that we must not broadcast anything overseas which would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects...
...bigger concentrated campaigns at two-month intervals. Securities sold in the $9 billion issue will be tailored to every type of investor. Commercial banks, investment houses and dealers will be organized into selling teams, and commercial banks have been warned that the amount of securities they will have to absorb depends directly on the success of the public campaign...