Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grueling a week, two ideas were too much for the market to absorb. Soon Hitler seemed to be marching across France. Out of Washington the ticker carried stories of peace before the end of summer. Down went prices again, gaining momentum. The week ended with heavy selling that broke the industrials eight points to 122.43. Export and war-baby stocks were not the only casualties. Fear spread that closing of European markets would depress U. S. income, especially of farmers, that any subsequent national defense boom would develop at the expense of general consumer purchasing power & freedom...
...Swiftly and smoothly underwritten, its provisions are characteristic of A. P. First call on the shares wall go to Bank of America's 145,000 present stockholders, biggest of whom is Transamerica, most of whom are small-money Westerners who admire old A. P. Among them they will absorb more than half the issue. To assure widespread distribution, nobody can buy more than $50,000 worth (without special permission). Heading the syndicate are Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd. and Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. of Cleveland, a widespread-distributionist from way back. Among...
...land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made some vigorous attempts to fight back, to polish up the tarnished reputation of the new world Cantabrigians. In order to encourage students from the wild and woolly West to spend their undergraduate days in the quiet...
...obscures them from public view. Thus obscurely in the years from 1914 to 1918 James Joyce labored in Trieste and Zurich over Ulysses, Marcel Proust labored in Paris over Remembrance of Things Past-two mighty realizations of European life which the next generation of writers and readers tried to absorb...
...widow of Lucius William Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal, died leaving Harvard University $1,000,000 with which to ''elevate the standards of journalism." This week for the third time Harvard picked a group of working newsmen (15) to go to Cambridge, with salaries paid, to absorb whatever knowledge they thirst after as Nieman Fellows. Chosen from 221 applicants was a catholic list...