Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the men are interested. This is particularly true of men who are interested in entering the manufacturing field locally, as there is a definite plan of cooperation now in effect between the College Employment Office and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. This latter organization will undertake to absorb from the colleges a limited number of graduates each year...
...will not only provide for that element now in the university which the requirements will shut out. It will also silence the accusations of intellectual exclusiveness of "shutting the gates of higher learning to the great mass of our American youth", which the legislative mind is particularly prone to absorb and to act upon for the benefit of seats at the next elections...
...John Cowles, Harvard '21. He frees his father of all the heavy work connected with publishing the Des Moines Register & Evening Tribune. Last week it was his name, not his father's, that was signed to a statement announcing that the Register-Tribune had bought and would absorb the local, competing Capital. Price: half a million...
...dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that once he gave me a copy of the memoirs of Sister Somebody-or-other, and I could not help feeling that he wanted me to absorb all the lessons of that good woman's life...
...what a change!" he says. "A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us,--call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country...