Word: oxford
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...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to present the sweep of the American story. His perspective on recent history is naturally personal, but the book is solidly readable and laced with many of its author's valuable insights...
From Pirandello & Moravia. The Italian project is part of a worldwide push toward updating languages. France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Greece all have recently undertaken or completed such projects, most of them inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary, whose final volume was published in 1928. Even with the aid of IBM computers, which will record and digest words from such great Italian writers as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Moravia-and Dante -the job is expected to take 50 years...
...quick survey of liquor establishments in the area yesterday netted the following information: Cronin's will insist on the Certificates from all questionable customers in "a day or two." The Hamilton Liquor Store and the Oxford Grille plan to require them "in a couple of weeks" and the Wursthaus and the Harvard Provision Co. on June...
...Harvard awardees include Lenn E. Goodman, of Eliot House and Los Angeles, Calif, who will concentrate in Oriental studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
Died. Joshua Macmillan, 20, grandson of Britain's retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a second-year student at Oxford's brainy Balliol College; from an apparent overdose of drugs; two days after returning from a Madrid vacation with his fiancée, Kara Yatsevitch, 18, daughter of an American diplomat stationed in Spain; in his room at Oxford...