Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe where Mrs. Elliott will absorb culture and scenery and Mr. Elliott promote a mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott started the fire herself. Criminal proceedings are instituted. Not until the just incendiary has occasioned two more blazes, in the homes...
Dissipation of the body manufactured heat depends on the surroundings. The drier the air the more moisture-bound heat it can absorb. The faster the air moves the faster can it carry heat from the body. But if the air is hot, humid and still, the body must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed...
...mass of indigestible factual material which the student is expected to absorb robs Music 4 and Fine Arts 1d of the potential charm which is inherent in these studies. A simplification of these and other such too esoteric, courses would aid in reducing the number of Philistines who graduate from Harvard...
Last week Commonwealth & Southern offered completely to absorb these companies, assuming their assets and liabilities and in time eliminating them as corporate entities. It also proposed to absorb Allied Power & Light, in which it has previously held no stock interest...
...this last interest which will particularly absorb Dr. Poling in the immediate future. On the Berengaria he and Mrs. Poling sailed last week for Europe, where he will superintend preparations for the Eighth World's Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Berlin next August. Similar conventions have heretofore been irregular (the last was in London in 1926) ; hereafter they are intended to be biennial. To Berlin will go representatives of 34 national Christian Endeavor organizations, including from 700 to 1,000 delegates from the U. S. Theme of the convention, at which Dr. Poling will preside: "The Challenge...