Word: oxford
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Gwen was there in New York on September 11. She had sat tall with her 400 strong I-banking training class in an accounting lecture held in an auditorium across the street from the World Trade Center. She remembers peeling up the bottom of her Oxford shirt to cover her nose as she ran down the streets of the Financial District, a cloud of debris following her just like Armageddon...
Princeton had been among the founding members of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, which now comprises only Stanford, Oxford and Yale. The group’s mission was to combine the academic resources of the four universities to provide online courses in the arts and sciences to their 500,000 collective alumni...
...stole $20 from the victim and fled toward Oxford...
...Blacks at Harvard, the larger book we eventually published, did not appear for another six years. During that time, the collection—which publishers kept saying would be too expensive to produce and would have a market limited to Harvard graduates—was rejected for publication by Oxford University Press, Beacon Press, the University of Massachusetts Press, the University of Illinois Press, Northeastern University Press, New York University Press and for a second time by Harvard University Press...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford. In June, Ridler, a onetime secretary to T.S. Eliot, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. DIED. MICHELINE OSTERMEYER, 78, who won discus and shot put gold medals for France in the 1948 Olympic Games; in Rouen. Ostermeyer...