Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Whitehead, director of the Program and member of the Faculty of Business Administration, announced yesterday that the Business School will also absorb the financial deficits for the next two years, should there be any. The school has been self-financing to a limited extent, with the annual deficit paid by Radcliffe College...
...could easily absorb another five or six billion dollars' worth of goods from abroad each year . . . When we consider . . . the great [production] edge we have on the rest of the world, it just isn't sensible-and courageous-to shake with fear at the thought that we might run into a little competition . . . One sure result of free trade with a prosperous free world is a greatly expanded market for the goods which American industry wants to sell...
...libraries. But one can hardly label watching football games a vital educational activity. When students patronize the stacks of Lamont, they are fulfilling certain academic requirements. Sooner or later, they must pass examinations to determine if they have soaked in enough knowledge. But at Soldiers Field, nobody has to absorb anything except perhaps fresh air. The college has a traditional duty to turn out men capable of its degrees, but none to manufacture students who know its football cheers and basketball tactics...
...When Formosa was liberated from the Japanese occupation in 1945, I felt that the English language should be promoted . . . in order that our people could absorb Western culture and exchange ideas with American and European countries. I had five associates with similar ideas, and we organized under the name of the Formosan Magazine Press. Our first venture was a monthly magazine in English . . . But the economic fluctuations of those days in Formosa were too much for us, and we suspended publication after ten months...
...same, London considers itself the largest university in the Commonwealth, larger than Oxford and Cambridge combined. When the autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create...