Word: absorbency
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After a billion or so years of such pre-life evolution, theorizes Urey, the blind forces of chemical attraction accidentally create a single molecule which has the ability to absorb other molecules and create a replica of itself...
Meanwhile Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that weren't making the grade at the time. Gateway turned out to be not such a bad club after all, and until the first war class of 1942 almost 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
Noren, who entered the game in the seventh as a sub for the ailing Gene Woodling in left field, opened the ninth by coaxing a pass. It was only the second walk off Sid Hudson, who went all the way, allowing nine hits to absorb his 18th loss against 10 victories...
...been a "lot of talk" about steel setting off a round of inflation, Putnam said evenly, and it just isn't so. Although big steel had held "a loaded gun" at the Government's head to get the increase, Putnam said, the industry will be forced to absorb most of the cost...
...effects of the steel boost are still to come. Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, pooh-poohing talk that all prices will shoot up, said he had a plan whereby users would absorb the increases, thus "eliminating any need for increasing prices to consumers." Putnam soon discovered his plan was economic nonsense. Many small fabricators have such small profit margins any further absorption of costs would force them out of business. As a result, the stabilizers, who already have been flooded with requests for price increases to compensate for the steel rise, started looking for a face-saving formula which would...