Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound itself but the triple threat of shock, infection and delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently...
...Orchestra will absorb about 30 girls, mostly of the string-playing species, thus bolstering the draft-depleted personnel of that organization. "Bigger and better things are hoped for next year," said Jaffe, whose increasingly Radcliffe minded orchestra began its rehearsals last night...
What Price Inflation? If the banks fail to absorb Government loans on a voluntary basis the Government expert comforts himself that he can always sell his bonds to the Federal Reserve. Selling the Government bonds to the banks is of course inflationary because it adds to the amount of credit money in circulation. But selling them to the central bank is the next thing to printing greenbacks. (France followed that road to inflation in the early '20s.) It means one more retreat from what the Treasury itself has said was its wartime objective: to cut down the sale...
This is a conversion as complete and necessary as that of American industry. A fighting force of thirteen million men will absorb practically all men eligible for college training. Without students there can be no universities, but college facilities, like those of industry, can be converted for war. If the modern Army calls for men acquainted with machines and complex technical apparatus, the colleges must provide them. If modern war calls for men sufficiently versed in their history to know for what they fight, the colleges can supply them...
...Government buying will absorb nearly 35-40% of this season's canned fruits & vegetables, 60-80% of tinned fish, a good part of the canned soup (so that all will get a fair share of what is left, OPA will ration distribution, which will probably mean that independents will get more than their share of what is left...