Word: high
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Serafini stepped forward. "Majesties!" he boomed. "In my capacity as Governor of Vatican City I have the high honor, in the name of my Sovereign. His Holiness Pius XI, to extend to you a welcome." They remounted their limousine...
...international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...could not take the ball anywhere even when they got it. Most of the time Tennessee's McEver had it, his chunky mud-legs, pumping. The five touchdowns and three extra points he scored made his individual season total 130-two points higher than the season's high man, Hinkle of Bucknell. Tennessee 54, South Carolina...
Then the Market broke and with it broke Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Blue Ridge common went from a high of 29⅝ to a low of 3½. Shenandoah went from 39⅜ to 6⅞. Furthermore, the first of the year was rapidly approaching-a significant period at which the Market break would be clearly reflected in investment trusts' reports of operations. Many a market student anticipated a severe January slump in investment trust securities...
...like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged down the top of my desk; I should correct no more deadening papers that...