Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he stayed on as conductor for the rest of the season. The players said then that he had memorized the scores because he was so nearsighted. It never occurred to them that a man might see with his ears and hear with his soul. His way was to absorb music. Back in Italy he went on proving his powers. At 27 he conducted Tristan und Isolde in Turin. His heart thumped for three months afterwards and he slept much less than his four hours a night. In 1898 he and Gatti were asked to reorganize the Scala. They...
...years ago the problem of resuscitation began to absorb Dr. Cornish. Last year he tried but failed to revive a man dead five hours of heart disease with oxygen mask and teeterboard, no injections. He had no better luck with two men dead six hours...
...face of facts such as you quote from FORTUNE under ''Munitions Men'' we humble preachers and preachers-to-be get that helpless feeling that a fly in a reptile cage must have. However, I hope at least half a million of our intelligent readers absorb these exposures, brief though they evidently are, and do a little concentrated thinking and praying. I was moved to immediately find the first colleagues I could at this midnight hour and I read the article to them...
...argument that business already has all the credit which it legitimately can absorb has been found to apply only to short term borrowings. The necessity for working capital and loans of the one, three or five-year type, which could be amortized out of earnings, was first disclosed statistically by a survey made by the National Industrial Conference Board in 1932 as a result of data made available through the Committees on Business and Industry of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts...
...balance the budget as a whole. The carrying of a deficit of $4,300,000,000 is an unprecedented ask for Federal credit, but the refinancing operations have thus far proceeded satisfactorily and, with the diminished amount needed this fiscal year, unquestionably the flotation of longer issues to absorb the maturing short term indebtedness will continue to be the objective of Federal policy...