Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics must either not detain the traveler long or absorb his whole attention. Dictatorship is absolute. There is no freedom of speech, political assembly, or from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Deportations to Siberia still occur. People are still shot because an aristocratic emigre in Paris drunkenly mumbled sounds which resembled their name. Suspicion and espionage are rife. But the people seem happy, in the main...
Secular Duties Absorb Energies...
...side a huge business concern, with increasingly complicated administrative and financial organization, engaged in many incidental activities which are sometimes hardly to be differentiated from business activities. Its rulers are much concerned with the raising of money, and elaborate extra-mural organizations and campaigns for funds absorb much of their attention. . . . It is likely to be much easier to procure an appropriation of five thousand dollars in order to paint a building which is in no great need of paint, than to get authority to spend five hundred dollars upon a rare and costly book which is only needed...
...that we had three classes on but one day, and only two on the other five days, we thought we had fallen into an easy proposition. We quickly learned, however, that the three-class day was a great strain, and that two lectures were about all we could satisfactorily absorb. The lecture periods are fifty minutes long and filled for the most part by rapid taking of notes, with time out for the statement of a case by a student, with possible discussion and questions. There is not time for day dreaming, and frequently we must compare our notebooks after...
When the Transportation Act of 1920 showed Congress favorably inclined to railroad mergers (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), three Eastern systems-N. Y. Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Pennsylvania-sat down and attempted to arrange just how they would absorb the rest of the roads in their territory. Unfortunately, everybody wanted the fat and nobody the lean roads. Meanwhile, the Van Sweringens quietly annexed the Nickel Plate, C. & O., Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, April 6), and became a fourth party at the prospective feast. Now, while the four cannot agree on details of distributing small roads...