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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home in Buckingham Palace last week, Princess Margaret found her desk piled high with invitations. London's fourth society season since the war was just rounding into the straightaway and there was,a heady catalogue of entertainments in the offing: a huge ball for the twin daughters of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The baby was christened Princess Margaret Rose of York. Her grandfather, seagoing George V, was still king. Her Uncle David, then Prince of Wales, had shown no signs of relinquishing his heritage when it came. Even should her father, the Duke of York, become king, there was still an elder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

New Prosperity. To some educators, such easygoing methods seemed close to madness. Holt was not concerned. His conference plan seemed to work, and more & more other colleges were using plans like it. Rollins itself prospered. Hamilton Holt was able to raise enough money to build 25 new Spanish-style buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prexy with a Prescription | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

In 24 years, Holt never altered his methods, nor changed his ways. He was always the amiable autocrat who collected antiques, breakfasted in his four-poster bed (George Washington had slept there), was forever popping into classrooms to see how things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prexy with a Prescription | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The ruling grew out of the Mayflower Broadcasting Corp.'s unsuccessful application in 1941 to take over the radio frequency used by the Yankee Network's Worcester station WAAB. FCC had been blasting WAAB for broadcasting "socalled editorials . . . urging the election of various candidates . . . or supporting one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sinking of the Mayflower | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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