Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ripping Time. British society, like an ancient actress who has outlived her time, has fallen into neglect since the war. It has been hard for the old girl even to get her name in the cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret...
...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...
...want to travel around the country," said Artist O'Brady. "Also I'll have to visit Evanston. Papa-he's 84 now-is still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
...Crowd Romance. Last week in San Francisco, the Northerners voted to consider the question of changing the denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...
...name compound E is no longer used because of confusion with the unrelated vitamin...