Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unless you want to pay $100,000 for lunch at the Oxford Grill, you ought to be happy that prices are finally coming down," Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, told the CRIMSON last night...
...followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone infallible," he once told his followers, "it is only me-only...
With his new four-cylinder models, Nuffield promised to give Lord a stiff race for U.S. sales. The Morris Minor convertibles (see cut) and sedans will retail for $1,555 or less in New York (v. Austin's $1,595); the slightly bigger Morris Oxford for $2,100. Smaller than U.S. cars (147½ inches overall v. 196¾ inches for Fords), the Minors get 35 miles to the gallon, have a top speed of 65 m.p.h...
...Oxford & Admiration. As Monsieur X, Antonin Besse had explained last fall, in part, why he had given so much to Oxford. No Oxford man himself, he had admired Oxonians as acquaintances and employees, wanted more young men trained as they had been. Besse has not yet explained one further mystery: he sent his own two sons to Cambridge...
...Aden and was not talking. Said an employee in his London branch office: "The old man won't like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would be a tragedy...