Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towering budgeted expenditures Japan's Army & Navy will absorb nearly half. From Manchuria, excuse for these expenditures, there has come glory but no revenue. Facing the fact of national incapacity to pay, Finance Minister Takahashi prepared to make up his staggering deficit by issuing bonds. He hoped that Japanese tycoons who profit from exploitation of Manchukuo will buy them...
Next day Chancellor von Papen tried to absorb the Prussian Cabinet into his Federal Cabinet. He created a Federal Ministry called the "Ministry of Interior of Prussia," and gave it to Dr. Bracht, who has been ruling Prussia as Acting Federal Commissioner. A Dr. Johann Popitz was popped into the State and Federal Cabinets as "Minister of Finance of Prussia." Finally the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Baron Magnus von Braun, added to his titles "Minister of Agriculture of Prussia...
...should be the goal of these meetings to raise questions on the underlying ideas involved in the course. For only when the basic ideas of a subject are made real to the student can he appreciate the meaning of the mass of information which he is expected to absorb. If the substance of lectures answers questions already in the student's mind, he will be mentally alive, and not passively receptive. It is, accordingly, a prime function of an instructor to raise pertinent questions about his field. As a means to that end nothing could be more effective than rightly...
...James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. in the Senate, the State soon discovered it had not suffered by the ex change. Chunky, genial, levelheaded. Senator Wagner has been pounding away at Unemployment Relief for two years. Said he last week: "The Administration has waited for some miracle to come about to absorb the unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug...
...vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount of cathode rays in air as a bluish haze around an aluminum window. The device produces 70,000-volt rays from no-volt house current...