Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies at the University of Chicago. I am unwilling to have her absorb the Communistic influences to which she is so insidiously exposed...
Dufaycolor is not the only film with the color screen applied directly on it. But because all color screens absorb some of the light they receive, all color films are "slower" than ordinary black-&-white film. Lumière film, the oldest, which is coated with fine starch grains, is 60 times slower. Agfa, which uses a solution of chemically discrete color elements, is 30 times slower. Not having geometrical screen patterns, these two films are susceptible to small inequalities of color distribution which may show up when a cinema projection is sufficiently magnified. Not only does Dufaycolor not suffer...
...George Landauer and Dr. Martin Rosenblueth announced that Palestine can absorb 40,000 German Jews a year if enough money is raised. On file are applications from 5,000 German families who wish to settle there during the next six months...
...plants, manufactures a colorless substance called proto-chlorophyll. Proto-chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb the carbon. At that instant the colorless proto-chlorophyll becomes chlorophyll and makes the grass green...
...word 'Dutch' must be replaced by 'Netherland' to remove the possibility of disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...