Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trusts are an economic evil. - (a) Limit natural production: Nation, vol. 49, p. 186 (Sept., 1889). - (b) Destroy competition. - (1) Absorb all large producers. - (2) Crush smaller rivals; Pop-Science Monthly, vol. 34, p. 19 (Mar., 1889). - (c) Raise prices...
...University Magazine is to be published shortly. Its purpose is to give graduates a full and reliable account of college news together with general literary matter. It is hoped that this will absorb the two monthlies now published...
...athletics under present circumstances. There has been a tendency, becoming more marked lately, for 'varsity contests to overshadow class contests. Since in the former the first athletes of the University take part, and since on them the athletic reputation of the University is staked, they have come to absorb so much interest that other contests are, by the force of contrast if nothing else, inevitably depressed...
...students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other hand, they believe that athletics have no monopoly on goodness, and that at the present time, they absorb more than their due share of attention. Students in general wish to see athletics have just their due share of attention,- no more and no less. Now such students will heartily support any program of reform that recommends itself to their good sense, and it is just in this respect...
...Gilbert thought the study of man and of nature to be the best means to a better education. Let the child study man through history, literature, perhaps geography, let him come into personal contact with nature and absorb her truths. Above all, he ought to be made to appreciate that all studies are linked together, that there is only one knowledge, and that the possession of that knowledge means all to him both for success and for high living...