Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's land offense depends primarily on the ability of Loren MacKinney to absorb enough blocking back assignments and technique before game time tomorrow. His actual experience in the role is limited to 15 minutes against Princeton, one afternoon of scrimmage, and a few signal drills...
...eleven seems not quite up to last year's and Dartmouth's 1944 aggregation is apparently the best in a long time. If Don McNicol's eleven lost decisively to the Green last November, it would seem that Coach Boston is in for an afternoon of watching his players absorb another licking. Should the primarily latent potentialities of the Yardlings come to light, it may be a sadly disillusioned group of Indians who stalk back to the Hills this evening...
...statements recently released by the deans of the various graduate schools concerning undergraduate requirements for entering their departments, the point was generally stressed that students of the College should not concentrate exclusively on the subject of their post-graduate work, but should attempt to absorb as much as possible of the liberal education offered at Harvard...
Vincent's disease, Dr. King concluded, may be a form of "pre-pellagra." Yet, since most Englishmen eat plenty of lean meat and fish, he found it "difficult to understand how there could be a [nicotinic acid] deficiency." Perhaps, he suggested, some people for unknown chemical reasons cannot absorb nicotinic acid from their food and need an extra supply...
...follower of Wang Ching-wei, he denounced Japanese aggression until Wang deserted the Chungking Government, took up with Japan. Two months ago he started the Chinese News Agency, which hopes to absorb all domestic & foreign news channels in China. Last week Wang's Tang, having made friends with Japan, attacked "American imperialism" in the Japanese-controlled part of China's press...