Word: absorbate
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About 175 Harvard upperclassmen will be unhappy. House masters managed to absorb about 105 of the 279 displaced students of last June but the remaining sophomores will have to take residence In Claverly or Apley. Dudley has been turned over to the Russian Research Center and other administrative offices...
...Freshmen filing past the long card-strewn tables in Memorial Hall today have a hard year ahead of them. They will be expected to absorb carefully and thoroughly one quarter of a liberal college education at a time when most of the outside pressures on them are neither liberal nor educational...
...habits, eccentricities and problems of Congressmen than most Congressmen themselves. In the 1920s, an ex-sergeant of the A.E.F., he got a job running an elevator in the Capitol, and not only transported Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge in his car, but used it as a vantage point to absorb the lore and atmosphere of Capitol Hill...
...Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
...finest, to his friend and doubles partner Bill Talbert, a New Yorker who hails from Cincinnati himself. Says Trabert: "He's like a brother . . . My tour of Europe with Bill in 1950 did much to raise my game. I learned so much that I couldn't absorb it all. Now it is sinking home and I'm putting it into practice." As a doubles team, Talbert & Trabert have never been beaten; their latest victory was in the Davis Cup match against Japan (TIME, July...