Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last surprise of the fight. Braddock thereafter fought aggressively as he had promised to do. Louis, his confidence restored since his Schmeling defeat, fought as he always does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said later, that unless he could land a lucky punch...
Some persons, however, may overlook Harvard's possible influence on Browder and Lewis. The survival of England's aristocracy is due, in large measure, to its ability to absorb the popular leaders who come up from below. Although they would probably not admit it, both Mr. Browder and Mr. Lewis may have a more compassionate regard for the old order after their Harvard visits. The Boston Herald June...
When receiving nose drops, all children should lie flat on the back and remain there for a few moments while the mucous membranes absorb the medication...
...money and they do not choose to see their money go into the pockets of Mrs. Simpson. Foreign newspaper correspondents, especially Americans, have the habit of mixing entirely too much with their own kind, and instead of getting the point of view of the man in the street, they absorb each other's impressions. Inevitably they tend to make a hero of the man or woman who gives them news and this is a great error...
...appears by liberal analysis to be a technicolor romance about the Epsom Derby. It takes a very liberal analysis to boil down the impudent, abstracted charm of the picture into this or any other trade category. Wings of the Morning glows with the kind of imagery which used to absorb the late Donn Byrne, upon some of whose stories it is based. Its tinted surfaces are vivid with gypsies, Irish hunters, girls in boys' clothing and effective landscape shots. Its structure, like that of the Byrne stories, is subject to interpolation every time a colorful episode, not included...