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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...
Balance these two factors, Harvard's condition and drive against lack of polish, and you have the plus and minus of this team. They have to their advantage a spirit which has enabled them to absorb great jobs of training and savvy; they must still learn the fine points of the game, both offensively and defensively...
Nearly 130 men will be added, either voluntarily or arbitrarily, to present House rolls within the next few weeks, thus forcing the seven Houses to absorb more extra men this year than under 1947's so-called "peak" enrollment...