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Referring to the guilt complex of many intellectuals who are "painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society" Berlin admits that the claims of social welfare are "indeed urgent, yet they must not be allowed to absorb the whole of life...
...group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor of onions, mushrooms and celery with wonderful effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited...
...history of the imposse begins in 1940, when Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that wasn't making the grade at the time. Gateway, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad club after all, and for two years, until the first war class of 1942, virtually 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
History is one example of a field which may see surpluses soon, the Provost said. On the other hand, Physics can probably absorb many more students that...
This 1948-1949 excess of income over expenses was achieved only because of a $508,742 surplus accrued in the University's administrative offices. Acting like a holding company for its numerous departments, the University was able to accumulate this $508,742, and thus absorb the deficit budgets of some departments...