Word: well-to-do
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...some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce and the remarriage of divorced persons. What has made the problem painfully thorny for the Church is the fact that, more than any other single denomination, it is made up of a body of wellborn, well-to-do communicants who are particularly addicted to divorce. Thus Bishop Freeman voiced the genuine alarm and anger of his colleagues in declaring...
...usual number of students-300-odd undergraduates, 100-odd postgraduates. Of the undergraduates about one fifth will be well-groomed Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore socialites who will clique together on the campus, "come out" during their college careers. The rest will be mostly healthy, normal girls from well-to-do U. S. homes. Their campus appearance lately prompted the Bryn Mawr College News to declare: "Clothes might be sent to the cleaners, buttons might be sewn on and hair might be brushed without any serious reflection being cast on the Bryn Mawr intellect...
Inventor Simjian conceived the apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
...Quincy, Mass, a Yorkish rosebush. Wife Abigail planted it behind the house, close to the library windows. That summer it bloomed, white & yellow. Last week Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again...
...reach 8 or 10 they ought not to be in the tropics." Of civilians who work in the tropics the Surgeon General continued: "They do not look vigorous to me. Take Hawaii particularly, which is a delightful place most of the year to live. The people there are pretty well-to-do, the white people who go out there. And very few of them fail to absent themselves for a few weeks to several months every year. In that way they keep...