Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over...
...labor costs rise too fast last spring? Many firms were in a position to raise wages in 1935 and 1936; it was questionable judgment to postpone wage increases until the last minute and then try to absorb them in one lump. During downswings people speak of cutting wages, but they seem to forget to raise them during recovery...
...Close of its report (which I am sorry the Crimson did not publish in full) the Union itself grants the advisability of producing intellectuals beyond society's capacity to absorb them. Then where lies the issue? "What we urge," they write, "is that the fundamental problem be faced." What they apparently desire is that Mr. Conant take it upon himself to cure the social system, as well as adapt the University to it: and isn't that a rather large order even for a university president? E. Y. Hartshorne...
This pro-German propaganda, a great deal better than any Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda know how to turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working...