Word: absorbate
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...could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...Advancement of Management, Wiener described briefly the mathematical and electronic tools that are the basis of modern control mechanisms. Then he launched into his standard warning: automatic factories and mechanical "brains" to run them may come into use too quickly and society may not be able to absorb or provide for the human hands and brains that they will replace. This is very likely to happen, said Wiener, if there is a third World War. The armed services will require enormous numbers of men, and the U.S. will have to fill their places on the home front with mechanical...
...exists at Princeton which accounts for the Tigers' consistent success. Is it really true that Branch Rickey owns half interest in the squad? Is it the Mahatma's game that secretly guides coach Caldwell? Or is it more basic, something in the Howard Johnson food that all freshmen must absorb for a year? Is it to be found in the eating of food from plates, a thing which goes on daily at the eating clubs...
...result was that by last week, when the Treasury's financing operation ended, FRB had had to absorb most of the new low-interest notes itself, in order to keep an orderly market. By so doing, FRB might well have offset the higher interest rates that it had imposed; in buying most of the Treasury's huge issue, FRB had increased the amount of money available for loans to its member banks. If the banks took advantage of this, commercial loans, in the end, might rise even more. In short, before FRB could make its sensible anti-inflationary...
...builders warned against too drastic a construction cut. Said they: "We consider it quite possible that the restrictions already imposed (i.e., higher down payments, less mortgage insurance) may reduce housing starts to a far lower figure [than 1,000,000]-perhaps as low as 600,000 . . . Until rearmament can absorb a far larger share of American production, any [such] cut in home building . . . would cause serious unemployment and other harmful dislocations of the economy...