Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorable period 30 years ago. Now they wanted a 12% bonus above this; and wanted 90% parity prices guaranteed them by Government loans. If there were a loss, the Government, meaning the U.S. people, would take it; if there were a profit, the top-drawer farmers would absorb...
...list goes on--but it is too long to relate here. Each man will have to absorb and learn it for himself. But to help him, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, wrote a book called "Three Centuries of Harvard." It should be a "must" for every Harvard student
...purpose of taking the course, from Wagenfeld's point of view, is "to absorb as much knowledge as we possibly can," on the theory that to acquire an understanding of industrial problems is to win half the battle for industrial peace...
...drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation, he was not sorry that their sun-dulled minds could not absorb his lessons, "as this left the responsibility for our progress entirely in my hands...
Remarking first on the immense expansion of the United States Navy in the past few months, Admiral Wilson told of the amazement expressed once by a French officer at the Navy's ability to absorb 400 graduates of Annapolis each year. "Think what he would say now," the Admiral remarked, pointing out that here were 600 officers, only part of an enormous program, being rushed to duty...