Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...exists at Princeton which accounts for the Tigers' consistent success. Is it really true that Branch Rickey owns half interest in the squad? Is it the Mahatma's game that secretly guides coach Caldwell? Or is it more basic, something in the Howard Johnson food that all freshmen must absorb for a year? Is it to be found in the eating of food from plates, a thing which goes on daily at the eating clubs...
...result was that by last week, when the Treasury's financing operation ended, FRB had had to absorb most of the new low-interest notes itself, in order to keep an orderly market. By so doing, FRB might well have offset the higher interest rates that it had imposed; in buying most of the Treasury's huge issue, FRB had increased the amount of money available for loans to its member banks. If the banks took advantage of this, commercial loans, in the end, might rise even more. In short, before FRB could make its sensible anti-inflationary...
Last week Delta's big (6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs.), 6 -year-old Collett Everman Woolman was all set to dump Captain Eddie off his lap. Woolman got together with Northeast Airlines, Inc.'s President George E. Gardner on a plan to absorb Northeast, which runs from New York through New England to Montreal...
...builders warned against too drastic a construction cut. Said they: "We consider it quite possible that the restrictions already imposed (i.e., higher down payments, less mortgage insurance) may reduce housing starts to a far lower figure [than 1,000,000]-perhaps as low as 600,000 . . . Until rearmament can absorb a far larger share of American production, any [such] cut in home building . . . would cause serious unemployment and other harmful dislocations of the economy...