Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concertgoers absorb more symphonic music than any others in the world. The extent of this absorption was charted last week in a statistic-studded volume by Margaret Grant &Herman S. Hettinger (of the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania) with the help of the Carnegie Corporation (America's Symphony Orchestras-Norton...
Answer: "In the course of the last 20 years, France has had to absorb a refugee population of Russians, Italians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and Czechs, amounting to nearly 4,000,000 - one-tenth of the total population. . . . To compare the fate of these refugees to that of liberals in Germany, Russia or Spain today is nonsense...
Farley on Agriculture wanted more "basic research" (i.e., new inventions), to absorb more agricultural workers: "In the decade just preceding the high days of 1929 seventeen million young people between 15 and 30 years of age left the farms and found employment in the towns. But for the past ten years rural population has been damming up in rural districts." He also boosted a basic crop: "We should never forget that rural districts constitute the great breeding ground of America. Yet the farmer today has lost the market for his greatest of all crops -his baby crop...
...same boat. Stockholder Rich told Barnsdall Refining's President Oscar L. Cordell and Barnsdall Oil's President E. B. Reeser what he thought of the deal. They talked back. They pointed out that SEC had told Barnsdall Oil to consider the refinery a subsidiary and absorb its losses or divorce it altogether. Divorce would have meant bankruptcy. They showed him the refinery's books and properties. Last year Barnsdall Refining lost $150,000 (1938 loss: $1,432,520), and they argued that it should make a 1940 profit under the new setup, which halves its debt...
Gullion teaches a system of basketball that is as complex as football. It is based on a set-play attack which takes immediate advantage of an opening. But it is a little difficult to absorb without constant practice. The 1939 team did not use it to full advantage until late in the season. The 1940 team might have had it except for a couple of bad breaks which Gullion thinks will cost it the championship...