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...Several acquaintances have said to me lately that, although to know me is to love me and I have a heart of gold, I do myself a great injustice and deny the world a measure of sweetness and laughter which it could easily absorb...
...Another reason for varying conditions is that pent-up demand for essential replacements will absorb some 1942 models (the first off the assembly lines), but at some point the public will hold back and wait for the much publicized postwar models. This procedure may produce inventory problems for merchants; it may also force manufacturers rapidly through two reconversions-first from war production to civilian production, 1942 style, then from 1942 to 1946 style...
...Stock Exchange; a course in public affairs with attendance at New York State Legislature sessions in Albany.) The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side. To make up for the high percentage (two-fifths) of class hours which the Core will absorb, Colgate will encourage its applicants to come fully prepared in basic language and composition requirements, so that less time will have to be spent on them in college...
...painting, is called whatever it's called. There's no mystery in this connection about "Over Twenty-One." It's about a 39-year old newspaper editor in a Florida Army training camp, and a recurring theme, or plaint, is built around the fiotsam that a man "can't absorb anything after he's passed...
Industrial diamonds comprise only 28% of the value (v. 87% of the volume) of diamonds sold in the U.S., the biggest market. With them, the company is less careful. But the cartel permits no stockpiling, carefully sells only what diamonds it judges the market can absorb...