Word: spending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central theme of "No Exit" is expressed by one of the characters: "Hell is other people." Three people, newly-arrived in Hell, find that they must spend eternity in each other's presence. Though they were not acquainted on earth, they soon perceive that being put together in one sealed room was no chance occurrence-each by his mere presence must forever torture the other...
There aren't any formal standards that help the Admissions Office spot the "well equipped" man. Instead, the School prefers to survey a man's entire past performance, looking especially to see how he has chosen to spend his time, how well he has executed whatever he has chosen, and how much good these activities have done him. All these factors, the School feels, are clues to the bigger problem of how well-suited the man is for a career in business administration. The School is not hunting for grinds with good marks, for the ideal business administrator...
...went to the movies: a special performance of That Forsyte Woman at the Odeon, about which 5,000 celebrity hunters swirled and gawked. On an evening at home (Buckingham Palace), the King and Queen gave a little party (250 guests) for Princess Elizabeth before she flew to Malta to spend her second wedding anniversary with Prince Philip, who is on duty with the fleet. The band at the party obligingly played request numbers for the Queen (Baby, It's Cold Outside) and for the King (Always True to You in My Fashion...
Televiewers can have color quickly: the CBS system. But to get such color programs (when & if they are telecast), the owners of existing sets will have to spend something like $100 each for attachments. The pictures will be good, but probably not so good as those supplied by some radical system not yet invented. The public, which ultimately controls FCC, can eat its color-cake now, thus commit itself to eating it from now on. Or it can wait for a better, as well as a less expensive, cake that may be ready five or ten years from...
Measure for Measure. In Springfield, Ohio, Truck Driver Clifford Ellis, charged with drunken driving and knocking down a pedestrian, was fined $150 and sentenced to "spend as much time in jail as the victim spends in the hospital...