Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weiskopf, Durakis, and Captain Bill Geick will represent the Crimson in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge Meet on the basis of their performances, Saturday...
Tickets for the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet, to be held on June 20, and for the Harvard-Yale baseball game scheduled for June 22, may be obtained at the HAA office...
...things they don't know," Hadden would complain. What was needed, they agreed, was a medium that would organize the chaotic flow of news so that even a man from Mars could understand it. After graduation from Yale, they went their separate ways for seasoning. Luce went to Oxford and then to a reporter's job on the Chicago Daily News, and Hadden decided to work on the old New York World for a year. When Editor Herbert Bayard Swope tried to refuse him a job, Hadden said sternly: "Mr. Swope, you're interfering with my destiny...
Aubrey struck one of his contemporaries as "shiftless . . . roving . . . magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a century) shows why. He may not have been a great scholar, but like his contemporary, Sam Pepys, he had a lively...
Father Leonard Feeney, S.J., is a short, 52-year-old man with a mobile, dimpled face and expressive hands. A literary priest who studied at Oxford and once worked on the Jesuit weekly America, Leonard Feeney is an enthusiastic conversationalist who sometimes begins his sentences with a naive, unliterary "Gee!" The author of several volumes of poetry and essays, he confessed in his Fish on Friday: "I am given to superlatives. I overstate things . . . I say 'most' when I mean 'much.' Without the words 'tremendous,' 'wonderful,' 'amazing,' and 'astounding...