Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magnificent as it was, the Brahms by no means obliterated Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, the other item on the program. The work presents such a succession of beauties that it is impossible to absorb them all at once. This performance revealed new ones, testifying again to the versitility of Mr. Munch and not incidently to the genius of Beethoven...
These changes do not mean that concentration in History is by any means easier than it was before. A good memory and capacity to absorb a lot of material and spew it forth onto a blue book is still the most valuable asset to a History concentrator...
...output 21.7 points in two weeks. At 95.5% of capacity this week, production was still climbing. Although the coal settlement had added anywhere from 10? to 25? to the cost of producing a ton of steel, the steelmakers, wary of Congress' watchful eye (see below), apparently planned to absorb the cost and not hike prices...
Despite the boom, there were dark spots. Unemployment was up to 4,684,000 in February as reported by the Department of Commerce. This was due less to a drop in jobs than to the fact that the economy was not expanding fast enough to absorb the estimated 1,500,000 annual newcomers in the growing labor force. Easter shopping had also been disappointing for department stores; soft goods were moving so slowly that textile mills saw trouble ahead...
...exports; the U.S. took & received about one-third. At war's end, with Europe unable to resume its customary trade, U.S. exports to the Latin American market climbed to a peak of $4 billion in 1947 compared to Europe's $1 billion. But the U.S. could not absorb the same proportion of Latin America's exports. The result was a terrific dollar shortage throughout Latin America...