Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balance these two factors, Harvard's condition and drive against lack of polish, and you have the plus and minus of this team. They have to their advantage a spirit which has enabled them to absorb great jobs of training and savvy; they must still learn the fine points of the game, both offensively and defensively...
...back at his original position (he was an all-scholastic end at Newton High) and his speed and shiftiness may enable him to click effectively on end arounds as soon as the Crimson offense reaches the stage where it can absorb that type of play...
Nearly 130 men will be added, either voluntarily or arbitrarily, to present House rolls within the next few weeks, thus forcing the seven Houses to absorb more extra men this year than under 1947's so-called "peak" enrollment...
...uranium is cheap and plentiful, it will be used more or less in the natural state. If uranium proves scarce, the supply can be eked out by "breeding." A reactor will be surrounded by a blanket of thorium or the plentiful but nonfissionable uranium isotope, U-238. When these absorb excess neutrons from the reaction, they turn into fissionable plutonium...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the last* of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Michigan's Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg...