Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing physical fitness for military service, and supreme devotion to the state, the Nazis have imbued the youth of the Reich with a spirit of self-sacrifice that is amazing, Kruse asserted. "Beginning with grammar school, young men absorb a steady stream of Nazi doctrines both in school and in the Hitler youth movements that have become compulsory...
...Germans have by this time built up an offensive force . . . that can take care of, crush, capture and absorb any amount of war material, tanks, planes, guns, trucks, munitions-as long as that material is used defensively...
...Before this district raises funds for the support of an episcopal establishment," he said, "it should pay a living wage to the clergy already giving their lives to its service." Rector Patton thought that the best thing to do was to absorb San Joaquin once more into the other Episcopal dioceses in California...
...consuming public can buy defense savings bonds, but doesn't. Since Pearl Harbor their sales have about tripled, were $660,000,000 in 26 days of February. But Morgenthau figures less than one-seventh of the nation's income earners own bonds. Hence, to absorb the dangerous purchasing power of this vast group, compulsory savings or a deferred-wage plan may prove necessary...
...more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more college men and fewer jobs, the liberal arts enrollment that had jumped 468 per cent since 1900 had come to a virtual stand-still by 1940. The war will continue to absorb college materials. And the middle class, which has always supplied the greatest proportion of students, will be less able to support a long, expensive education after the war--especially when that education is no longer a sure-fire job-getter...