Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, plump-cheeked little Dean Milo Hudson Gates read from Acts, XVII. Lean little Bishop William T. Manning stood in red vestments by his side. Dean Gates read from the words of another little man, but a great one: bald, homely St. Paul who stood on a rock on Mars Hill in Athens and cried...
...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...
...contemplating bankruptcy. The stock tumbled from $8.75 a share to $3.50. Within a few hours the reports were denied, the stock snapped back to $7.50. The New York Stock Exchange promptly started an investigation. But there was real ammunition for bearish rail operators in the fact that Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific did slip into bankruptcy, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe cut its preferred dividend from $5 to $3, first reduction since 1901. Bullish operators joked about Baltimore & Ohio's new-found source of revenue: leasing a locomotive to a Pittsburgh brewery as an auxiliary boiler...
...Manhattan, Wescott went abroad to live and has been there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...
...woman from the back of the group said. 'There are no such distinctions here. We are all one and either we all come forward or no one will come forward.' . . . And so in a few minutes, after a consultation of those Hindu priests on that altar rock, the priest came down among us and offered to us their sacred Hindu food-to Hindu, to orthodox, to outcaste, to Mohammedan, and to Christian they offered the Hindu food...