Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reservoirs. A system of reservoirs in the upper reaches of streams tributary to the Mississippi would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...
...heat and trolley rides to most of Chicago and its purlieus) should decide to take the city's taxicab situation in hand. That was the rumor, vague and unelaborated but still striking-that Samuel Insull would stride among the Chicago taxicab companies, either to compete with them or absorb them as one more of his big utility schemes...
President Angell, emphasizing the need of personnel study, spoke of the necessity for a carefully organized bureau of accurate information regarding contemporary conditions in typical occupations which absorb college graduates each year, and the need for a personnel service which would help the student to determine with some exactness for himself his real qualifications and in what fields of endeavor he can hope to be successful. He declared that a personnel system of the kind suggested, with accurate information regarding outside conditions, and with an effective alumni placement organization outside the university, should go far to remedy the present loosely...
...should have developed the initiative to study for himself, without external stimuli. The amount of outside work that a student does in the course should be a matter left for him to decide for himself, depending on his interest in the subject. He should theoretically be able to absorb enough from the lectures to pass. His should gradually approach the graduate student's attitude. Until then --we need snap courses. Columbia Spectator...
...blue books enough for the final examinations? Is there anything in that last glue we brought which will injure valuable prints that are to be mounted with it? "The last mimeograph paper dries fast enough, but we can't write on it." How can we buy paper that will absorb ink quickly and yet will not absorb...