Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom for herself. She may marry whomever she pleases (provided, of course, that he is not a Roman Catholic, that she gets her father's permission if she is still under 25, or, failing it, gives a year's notice to both houses of Parliament). She may go where she likes (provided it is decorous, proper, dignified and offends nobody). As heir to the throne, Elizabeth will continue to carry the heavy share of chairmanships, launchings and dedications. By day, Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms...
...grown fond of its tennis-loving, piano-playing president, his flashy sport shirts and his flashing ideas on education. When he first came to Rollins, he had found it little more than a playboy's paradise, "so far down the education hole, that the only place it could go was up." By last week, a long way up, Rollins had made a name for itself as a lively, unorthodox pacesetter among U.S. colleges...
...subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought to go...
...garden of his Riviera villa last week, the frail, friendly painter thought he might do some more portraits: "Someone wants me to try a self-portrait and I've been putting it off and off. Now I rather think I'd like to have a go at it." Meanwhile he supposed he would go on filling his days with sketches of the surrounding landscape, and escorting his pretty wife to the Casino at Monte Carlo now and then in the evenings, for a spot of gambling...
...that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...