Word: reabsorbs
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...rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release of the pituitary substance which normally stimulates sex activity. It seemed to show that parental behavior and sex activity are antipathetic, by glandular decree...
...Another point they are considering is whether our economic system as now constituted can reabsorb the laborers thrown out of work by this change. In the past we have always been able to reabsorb all our labor, so we may think that we can continue to do so, but we must not lose track of the fact that the economic system of today is far more inelastic than that of the past century. Technological unemployment can not be passed lightly over, for it is a question that is becoming more and more apparent daily...