Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved too fast ever to get set for a solid blow, but his left jab kept Rowan off bal ance all through the fight. At the end, he barreled in to demonstrate that he can hold his own in a close-in roughhouse and absorb some solid swipes without slowing up. His night's work earned him a unanimous decision, and gave the matchmakers something new to think about in their search for a heavyweight-title contender...
...very exact definition of this "normalcy," but almost everyone at Yale agrees that it has to be attained if the University is to save itself from the dilution of educational standards they forsee at universities that try to absorb huge future increases in college students...
...meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most crucial and important of all, the enrollment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is growing smaller as fewer high-quality students choose the low-paid teaching profession...
...well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked U.S. newsprint manufacturers to confer with its trustbusters, warned pointedly: "Every effort will be made to prevent any joint efforts to increase prices" of domestic newsprint...
...continuous peace, one religion will eventually win the allegiance of the whole of mankind, Arnold J. Toynbee said last night in the fourth and last of the Hewitt Lectures at Sanders Theatre. The winning religion will not eliminate other religions, but absorb their best elements, he added...