Word: nigerian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With leader Walter Carrington '52, ten students from this country spent three weeks living with educated African families in the Nigerian capital of Lagos. Then, for five weeks, the group traveled through smaller cities and villages...
Steven O. Awokoya, former Nigerian minister of education, opened a two-week visit to the Cambridge area yesterday. During his stay he will study teaching techniques at the University and at M.I.T...
Last spring's Student Council book drive netted some 3,500 books (weighing two tons), some 1,500 more than the original goal. The books, sent through the World University Service, are ear-marked for Nigerian and Pakistani students...
...Union of South Africa, Central African Federation, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) to be snapped up even by illiterates, who pay educated friends to read each issue aloud. West African government officials sometimes call to complain that their complimentary copies have not yet arrived. In the Nigerian capital of Lagos, 19,000 copies go on sale at 4 a.m.; by sundown the same day all have been sold...
...thumbed the Bible ("I just open the Good Book and read whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right uppercuts that had the challenger tottering backward in a grotesque little dance. At the bell, Bassey...