Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the School, the funds may go into the construction of a 85,000 cu. ft. skyscraper of the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Sts. The structure would absorb the entire School, which is now scattered all entire Cambridge in six run-down houses. Keppel stressed that the proposed building is only one alternative: "there isn't too much elbow room in that area of future expansion. We may have to something else...
...coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage of 1,400 miles, it empties with a gout of reddish, mineral-stained water into the Gulf of California...
...hemophilia"; ''Thoreau was a Gandhi in a second-hand suit"; "It is downright unfair to take money from the rich to try to educate the poor, who don't want any education, are puzzled by it, and once they get it, such as they can absorb, use it only to read confession and detective magazines. So I say, teach the boobs nothing, except to obey their superiors...
Based on a proposal submitted last Spring by Benjamin W. Labaree, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, the plan calls for the replacement of the freshman proctor with the "resident adviser." Beginning next term, the 60 resident advisers will absorb the proctors' functions and advise 600 freshman. At present only 40 proctors are also advisers...
Lark advertising "stunk," and the agency was given two weeks to produce "something new." The result is a "30-day hate yourself" campaign telling car buyers they will hate themselves for not trying the Lark first. Egbert is moving ahead on a program to absorb Studebaker's tax loss credits ($94 million) by merging with prosperous companies. It was the slow pace of this program that led to the easing of former President Harold E.Churchill into a consultant's post and the hiring of Egbert...