Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House about 10 are resident in the House and the rest have temporary 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 from the intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, expect that men out for honors can secure a reduction in the number during their Senior year...
...Through the new German-Austrian treaty, Germany has renounced at least for the present, any ambition to absorb Austria. It is clear that Russia, even though credited in some quarters with being ready enough to see trouble elsewhere, is not believed to have any provocative plans on the West or on the East...
John Lewis and his C. I. O. are currently out to organize every worker in the steel industry, regardless of craft, into one big union (TIME, July 20 et ante). Composed of industrial unions, C. I. O. is dedicated to extending this form of labor organization to absorb the greater part of the U. S. working class. With this objective, the 13 A. F. of L. Councilmen, whose livelihood depends on the autonomy and independence of some 100 traditional craft unions, obviously could not compromise. So the next business before the Council was to hear evidence justifying the suspension...
...Gaumont will scrap its U. S. distributing organization at a saving of at least $500,000 annually. In return M-G-M and Twentieth Century-Fox will market Gaumont pictures not only in the U. S. but in nearly all countries of the world except Britain. There Gaumont will absorb MGM's and Fox's sales forces, effecting sizable economies for the U. S. companies...
...Republicans' vague but earnest promise to end crop restriction, the Democrats matched with a declaration in favor of "the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers." To most observers that sounded like crop control stated backwards. Into the farm plank also went such pledges as continued benefit pay ments, Government refinancing of farm debts, encouragement of cooperatives, retirement of submarginal land, "recognition" of the evils of farm tenancy...