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...convertible into four and one-half shares of authorized common, thus evaluating the common at $22.22 per share. But while the prospectus was brewing, Pure Oil tumbled from $20 to $14 a share. So stockholders took only about $800,000 of the new issue and the underwriters had to absorb the rest...
...worried. It seems I can't concentrate. At least every time I look hard at a lecturer and try to absorb what he is saying, I go to sleep. The other day I got out of a nine o'clock at a quarter to two, and then only because the janitor tried to dust off my feet. And now with the first November Hours coming the twentieth of October, and with me asleep half the time, I'm worried. Things are so bad that I even go to sleep in tutoring school, and they haven't any janitor there...
...with the result that the tournament remained unfinished. This fall with an increase in the number of singles tournaments, the doubles would suffer a great deal more than in the past. With the added tournaments the Singles B tournament appears to be unnecessary for the House tournaments will easily absorb these formerly interested in the Singles...
...painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week at a report from Mexico City that a way had been discovered to keep plaster fresh for nearly two-and-one-half days...
...tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House about ten are resident in the House, while the rest have temporary studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another, to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit from the intellectual contact. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses...