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Under the leadership of Charley Vivian, the Dunces rehearse their growing catalogue of numbers in the Dunster Large Common Room two evenings a week. When the night air is warm, the windows are thrown wide, and the strains come tumbling out into the courtyard for weary studiers to absorb...
...always contrives to have every individual department round out the year in the black, is largely a matter confined to the Treasurer's bookkeeping. If the HAA were to take a lively interest in the band, it ought not to have much difficulty in persuading University financial authorities to absorb an extra $7,000. In fact, the performance in the Stadium any Saturday should be ample persuasion...
Livestock feeders had been worried over the end of ceilings, and even more because many grain growers refused to sell before prices went up. By week's end, feeders felt better; stored grain was coming into the market, and prices for beef cattle were rising enough to absorb higher feed costs. The prairies stirred under the dangerous tonic of rising prices...
...friends for the oil industry. So far this year, crude oil producers' earnings are up 100% over last year. Refinery companies are well up also. With profits at these levels, many an oilman thought that the smart thing for the industry to do was to absorb the crude increase and hold the retail line...
...graft to live, and there is no possible way to stop this sort of graft until all Government employees, military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...