Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's purpose is obviously to absorb both of these American possessions at the psychological time...
...tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House, about 10 are resident in the House and the rest have studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another, to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit by the intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, except that men out for honors can secure a reduction in the number during their Senior year...
...blood at atmospheric pressure. Peering through his microscope, Scientist Laurie discovered why. He found that whale blood teems with tiny free-swimming organisms, 20 millions of them per cubic millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers, in whose veins bubbles of nitrogen form when they come...
Step 2. In 1920 came the National Transportation Act, proposing railroad consolidations. Straightway the Van Sweringens sat down to figure out their own consolidation. The Nickel Plate was making money and in 1922 they had it buy and absorb two smaller roads: the Toledo, St. Louis & Western ("Clover Leaf") and the Lake Erie & Western. But the brothers had a more ambitious project; they wanted the Chesapeake & Ohio. A block of 73,000 shares, a minority but practically a controlling interest in the C. & O., was held by the Huntington family of Los Angeles. In 1923 they bought this...
...could let cotton growers speculate on a rising market by giving them free options on government cotton in return for reduced acreage. He could issue $2,000,000,000 worth of Federal Land Bank bonds to refinance farm mortgages at 4½%. He could compel the Federal Reserve to absorb $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. securities. He could issue $3,000,000,000 worth of paper money, backed only by the good name of the U. S. He could cut the gold content of the dollar to 50?. He could order the free coinage of an unlimited...