Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where are they going to live? Where are they going to eat? Is the University able to put them up? Are Harvard Square and its environments adequate to absorb so many? Will the alumni have to stay at Boston hotels and go back there to lunch...
...regard to food the Bureau has also conducted a careful survey of the local eating places, about 30 of which have been located in Harvard Square and its environments. These establishments, it is felt, are sufficient to absorb the extra numbers at the time of the Celebration...
...independence of the Division of Semitic Languages is not threatened by the plan for a new Division of Oriental Languages. The statement in Monday's CRIMSON that the new Division Oriented Languages, (in which there will be the then Department of Semitic Languages and History), will in any way absorb the latter is "an absurdity, a mistake, and a misstatement...
...Professor Elisseeff's plan is accepted by the Corporation there will still be a total of 16 divisions, since the new Far Eastern Language department would absorb the separate division of Semitic Languages...
...instead of a goods-train they are 'right'; and the first is correct English and the second a dialect." Americanisms, which have been forcing their way into English since the early 19th Century, have lately "been entering at a truly dizzy pace." Two causes: i) British cinemaddicts absorb more U. S. talkies than their own. 2) "The influence of 125,000,000 people, practically all headed in one direction, is simply too great to be resisted by any minority, however resolute." The tide turned in 1820 (Sir William Craigie's date) ; first U. S. invaders were reliable...