Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris also warned of a "B.A. and Ph. D. proletariat' if the Commission's proposed 1960 enrollment of 4,600,000 materializes. The evidence shows that "a college graduate is not generally content with employment in any but the favored occupations, which could not absorb even one-quarter of the Commission's fifteen million junior college graduates of 1968 and one-tenth of the thirty to forty-five millions of four-year-college graduates...
During his long years in the cold corridors of the school's single Tudorish building, William Barber has had time to absorb the highly principled and highly pedigreed Christianity that St. Mark's preaches. Under Barber, the preaching will go on, with Barber doing a good bit of it himself at chapel services on Monday nights. The son of a Greek teacher at St. Mark's, Barber has taught Greek himself for seven years. Now, he will teach only one class. But he will go on coaching the hockey team, and every so often he will take...
Both "Joe" and Max Keezer stand ready to absorb miscellanies so that the back-against-the-wall undergraduate may find enough money to take care of all those relatives. And the careful pick and choose, once-in-a-lifetime shopper might find a choice bric or brac if he investigates carefully...
...barriers. They might be decorated on the outside, but their main purpose was to keep the weather out. Modern architects think of a wall as a filter between the outside and inside environments. For example, the wall of a factory in a hot climate should reflect outside heat and absorb inside heat, passing as much of it as possible to the outside. In a cold climate, the wall should gather all possible heat from the sunlight, while keeping inside heat from moving out. Modern materials, such as sheet metal, mineral wool and glass brick, allow the architects to design efficient...
...College itself can absorb only about one-fourth of the job-hunters in such positions as dining-hall busboys, lab technicians, and the like. The other three-fourths must find employment with individuals or companies in Cambridge and Boston...