Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many as 20,000 captives were sacrificed at one time in the Aztec metropolis. Victims' flesh was sometimes eaten "in the belief that the eater can absorb the virtues of the eaten...
...past few years, Brazil has sold all of its coffee that the world market would absorb at considerably less than the current 235 milreis ($11.75) a bag, F.O.B. Growers have received about 2 milreis a bag from the Government for the rest. Now the Government expects to be able to pay a decent price for surplus coffee, get the money back from the sale of cafelite...
...only an outline but it pointed out two basic facts: 1) that any expansion of the economy can absorb only a few millions of workers in any given year, 2) that when peace comes the U.S. must find peacetime jobs for all its man power, otherwise "we shall be back in the valley of the depression...
Sumner Welles is naturally fitted to his work, tailored to it as accurately as his clothes are tailored to him. First and most important, he is tough-minded, with the quality of mental resilience that can absorb pressures and withstand shocks, a sort of intellectual defense-in-depth. He has a firm hold on every one of the diplomatic virtues: he is absolutely precise, imperturbable, accurate, honest, sophisticated, thorough, cultured, traveled, financially established. He has been through the mill; the only surprises left for Sumner Welles are those of destiny...
Sulfapyridine brings far better results than sulfanilamide, but it is a difficult drug for the body to absorb and excrete, also causes a "very troublesome nausea." At present it has a narrow range of use, for sulfathiazole is equally effective, less toxic...