Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear as a patch-work of departments because of Harvard's system of budgeting. Under a long-standing rule, expressed by the hallowed phrase "each tub must stand on its own bottom," a separate accounting is kept by each department, and each must balance its budget annually. Departments must absorb deficits to the limit of their own accumulated balances of previous years. When these are used up, deficits may be covered by unrestricted funds from the University's separate endowment...
...committee in charge of freshman housing at first feared that there would not be enough rooms to absorb this influx. The architect for Weld had originally submitted a report which set the renovated hall's capacity at only about 100 spaces...
...nine-story hall designed by Architect Max Abramovitz, its glass sides framed by 42 columns faced with travertine, its main foyer rising almost 50 ft. and dominated by a five-ton "space sculpture," still unfinished, by Richard Lippold. With 2,646 seats (with holes on the underside to absorb sound), Philharmonic Hall is 114 seats smaller than Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, and it provides no room for standees. But the opening gave New York two major concert halls for the first time in 35 years (since the demolition of Aeolian Hall), and it clearly provided a test, as Carnegie...
...Byrd '64, a popular student magician, originally signed up with the HSA agency, but withdrew in protest at the booking charge. Byrd said yesterday that he often cuts his charge for people who cannot pay the full price, and that he "could not absorb" a $3 booking fee. Byrd also said that he got "more business than he could handle" through Student Employment...
...Miss Carson's case against spraying depends on her contention that DDT and its near chemical relatives are poisonous to humans, especially since they tend to accumulate in fatty tissues. Experts do not agree. A mere trace of DDT kills insects, but humans and other mammals can absorb large doses without damage. Dr. Wayland J. Hayes, chief of the toxicology section of the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta says that every meal served in the U.S. probably contains a trace of DDT, but that this is nothing to worry about. He and his co-workers fed 200 times...