Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could survey a page and absorb its contents from any angle-sidewise or upside down...
...requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...rise of the Labor movement in England, in contrast to its absence in America, is due to the reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth...
...take a night off to listen to emotional outbursts of over-footballized epthusiasts? And why follow the mob, sit in a crowded room, and absorb the palpitating heart beats of the freshman sitting next to you, merely to hear the rather boring remarks about the necessity of winning the Harvard game this week-end? We were beaten by Yale last week and we may be beaten by Harvard on Saturday. But why get excited about...
...securities for the Government of Brazil, $81,000,000 for the Canadian National Railways, $35,000,000 for the Republic of Poland, and $15,000,000 for the Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. of Japan. Not the capacity of U. S. finance to float and absorb loans but the ultimate capacity of Germany to work off interest and principal, must needs absorb Messrs. Morgan, Dillon, Gilbert and many another for years to come...