Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship among undergraduates; college costs have been reduced, and the amount of scholarship aids has been maintained relatively stable; the experiment of exempting seniors from hour examinations should be given further trial; and thee is the old land grave question of how many financially dependent students the College can absorb with benefit both to the institution and to the individual. Problems have arisen and have been met; throughout the whole there is a tone of complacent success which one associates with the annual reports of Harvard's executives...
...Although Harvard College is now making every possible effort to assist deserving and capable students through scholarships, loans, beneficiary aid, and employment within the University, the question arises whether there is not a limit to the number of students who need such assistance that a college can absorb...
Seats which absorb sound in the same degree as a clothed human body, thus assuring no empty auditorium ring if they are empty...
Taxes: No recent major increase but estimated to absorb 30% of the national income, compared...
...Temperature of those points must be between 3,000° and 6,000° C. "If one could look into protoplasm with an eye capable of infinite magnification," he elaborated, "one might expect to see the radiogens spaced like stars, as suns in infinite miniature." The "interstellar" spaces absorb the intense heat of his radiogens, he reasons. The nucleus of his theoretic radiogen "would theoretically be a molecule of iron." Dr. Maria Takles, a Crile associate, figures four billion radiogens in a cubic centimetre of muscle...