Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excessive overcrowding of the Houses has resulted from the influx of unanticipated numbers of Naval students in the Yard. This has made it impossible for the Houses to absorb any Freshmen entering in September...
Average wait: three months. The 60-odd schooling fields of the Flying Training Command could not absorb the candidates as fast as they were needed or as fast as they applied...
...that nobody is going to get any pie. . . . To increase the real wage level is now, I think, completely out of the question. . . . The cost of living has increased about 10% in the last year.* To increase the wage level 10% over-all would just about absorb the amount of the new projected tax bill...
Democratic Dilemma. Neither does Author de Sales believe that democracy is doomed in its struggle with Communism and Naziism. "Democracy," he says, "is still in a position to absorb many doctrines, such as socialism, without necessarily destroying itself, because it still remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
Metallurgists estimated last week that actual and potential uses could absorb 100 to 120 million ounces of silver this year (U.S. production in 1941: 70 million ounces). Hardy & Harman, famed Manhattan silver refiners and dealers, used to have about 500 customers, mostly in jewelry and other crafts. Now they have 15,000 customers, mostly in industry. Where they used to send out salesmen, they now send engineers...