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Word: cosier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products of post-war university expansion in the U.K., but the difference is no greater than that between Harvard and a Mid-West American college. Indeed, the "superior" atmosphere common to both "Oxbridge" and Ivy League (which many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem even cosier. There are the same manicured lawns, lay-out of staircase and quadrangle, dining clubs and societies, even the same assiduous cultivation of alumni and roll-calls of the "great and just" shuttling through to impart their wisdom to the student body...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Behind the Gowns | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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