Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other dorms to be closed, Peach and Henry Houses, together with Twenty Walker Street now accommodate a total of 57 students. The size of Holmes will make it possible to absorb these girls in the quadrangle and still house eight percent more resident students in the Quadrangle, upping the on-campus total to 80 percent of the resident enrollment...
...team that's playing over its head just cannot absorb a bad break like that. Thereafter the Harvard squad lost some of its electrifying vigor and the Tigers shook off their sense of shock...
...years, off & on, Mr. Zerbee dreamed about a gadget that would absorb simple observations of the stars and compute a ship's position without any figuring at all. The job was not simple; many men, including the ancient Greeks, had tried it and failed. But six years ago, Zerbee worked out a method that was good enough to impress a retired naval officer whom he met in Florida. Three years later Zerbee had completed a crude model that would find the position of his Estero Island cottage on the map with an error of only seven miles...
...rest of Detective Story's large cast, featuring William Bendix in a straight role as McLeod's older detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...
Even people convinced of the righteousness of the amateur cause have found it difficult to absorb Harvard's last three football defeats without a slight touch of indigestion. There is something intrinsically unpleasant about being slaughtered, and when outsiders are making a great deal of fuss over the losses, things are that much worse...