Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncrowded conditions Lowell visualized. Over 4,000 students now live and are educated in facilities designed for a maximum of 3,000. Almost every planned single suite is a double, every double a triple, and every triple a quadruple. Tutorial, the educational aspect of the Houses, has failed to absorb the burden...
...rods, will be a solution of uranye sulfate. Dr. Smyth did not say in what liquid its uranium will be dissolved. A fair guess is that it may be heavy water. Since the reactor will be a breeder, it must be economical of neutrons, and heavy water does not absorb as many neutrons as ordinary water does. Instead of breeding U-238 into plutonium, the excess neutrons from its reacting core will be absorbed in thorium, turning it into fissionable U-233-Thorium is probably more plentiful than uranium, and it has been discussed for years as a promising source...
...have been able to absorb this increased demand," he explained, "but if the rate continues, it might be necessary to construct additions to the dormitory system." At present, there are only a few of the 470 housing units left unoccupied in Richards and James Halls, bufit three years...
...system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...
Just returned from a 60-concert world tour, Stern is now beginning another series, this one to total about 200 appearances. After that, he will take a year off. He wants to rest, restudy his technique and absorb new ideas. Says he: "I've been on the stage professionally for 18 years, and developed a certain attitude just to be a professional concert player. But I don't want to be known only as a violinist. I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." Now that he is established...