Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Press attacks launched against the Masons by the Catholic, Nationalist, and Fascisti parties absorb the attention of all Italians. The Grand Fascista Council, at a meeting in Rome, requested its Masonic members to choose between Fascismo and Freemasonry. A sequel to this "order" was enacted at a meeting of the Rome Municipal Council, at which a motion was presented that only Nationalists, Fascisti, or Liberals not belonging to the Masonic Order should be eligible to fill existing vacancies in the city administration. The motion also included a statement that if for any reason it was found necessary to nominate members...
...time as it did freshman year. Even as a senior, however, he cares but little for girls and music and things like that Music entered into his freshman life only eleven hundredths of an hour each day and girls three hundredths, and as a senior the two together absorb his attention for only twenty seven hundredths of one hour out of the twenty-four...
...very soon found that, notwithstanding my forty years' experience in training young men in the naval service, I had been greatly mistaken regarding the capacity of these fine young chaps to literally absorb the necessary knowledge and acquire the training essential to effective service. Some of them had been given a short course of instruction at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and were commissioned ensigns, but many had no previous training...
...seven hundred years of Oxford's splendid history the university has built up a tradition as deep-rooted and unshakable as the Common Law. Even in 'Erasmus' day English scholars bemoaned the influx of the foreign student. The present inundation of Americans is far more likely to be absorbed by the atmosphere than to absorb it. The momentum of seven hundred years is not to be checked and swept away in four or five...
...Wood became governor-general. President Harding despatched him and ExGovernor General Forbes to the Philippines to make a complete survey and report on conditions. The Wood-Forbes report recommended, among other things, "that the present general status of the Philippine Islands continue until the people have had time to absorb and thoroughly master the powers already in their hands," and "that under no circumstances should the American Government permit to be established in the Philippine Islands a situation which would leave the United States in a position of responsibility without authority." General Wood and Mr. Forbes, competent observers and students...