Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "See what a nice leech. See how quick it takes. . . . The domestic leech sticks, but it does not absorb. The best leeches come from Germany and Sweden. During the War we could not get German leeches. I imported some Greek leeches, and they were very good too, but somehow I could not feel at home with them. . . . The leech is an epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...
...their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will be able to absorb some of the maturity of the people whom he studies, and transfer it to his native soil...
...Last week, after subscriptions of $30,000,000 the Treasury ceased selling "baby bonds" to absorb hoarded funds...
...balance next year's budget and absorb an estimated deficit of $1,241,000,000 the House Ways & Means Committee had drafted, without politics or partisanship, a bill to raise by taxation $1,096,000,000 above current receipts. To make up the difference the committee anticipated a $125,000,000 cut in Government expenses and a $25,000,000 increase in postal income. If all worked well, which it rarely does, the Treasury would squeak through 1933 with $5,000,000 to spare. The new or increased taxes before the House and the estimated revenue from each were...