Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickly to his office in the 2 Rector St. building. He telephoned a large Stock Exchange house, said he thought there would be trouble but "just call on me for anything you want." A few hours later stock of his gigantic Electric Bond & Share which had recently reached a high of 189 sold for 91. A few days later, it sold...
Stock Exchange and 6,000 shares of Montgomery Ward changed hands at 83-its 1929 high having been...
Most expensive of flowers is, of course, the orchid, for which collectors have sometimes paid as much as $5,000 a plant. In the tropics orchids are found as brilliant patches of color at the top of high peaks or hidden in luxurious forests. In northern climates their reproduction and culture is an exacting scientific task over which specialists must labor for the seven years that elapse between the time the orchid seed is planted and the day the flower bursts into bloom...
...where a cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to do ghostly and secular business together, it is well that they should dwell together in charity. Not always is this the case. Last winter Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning, high-church authoritarian, fell out with Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, broad-church independent (TIME, Jan. 14). Said Dean Robbins: "There is a fundamental difference of opinion as to the rights of the dean." Dean Robbins resigned, became professor of pastoral theology at General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, principal training school of Episcopal...
...Gates is a close friend of Bishop Manning. Short, round, bespectacled, 63, with plump, mild face and greyish head, he dislikes to be called high-church, prefers "oldfashioned Episcopalian." He has been head of the parish of the Intercession more than 25 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he is a graduate of Amherst (nine years before Calvin Coolidge), the General Seminary, St. Stephen's College. He is known as a good preacher, scholar of church architecture, president of the Sanctity of Marriage Society which seeks to keep divorced persons from remarrying in the Church, 32nd-degree Mason, national chaplain...