Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from Oxford, a Middle East correspondent for the London Evening Standard had made a guess of his own, cabled it to his paper. The Standard put in a phone call to a villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
...common rooms and dining halls all over Oxford, there had been plenty of guesses, but the mystery remained unsolved. A wealthy Frenchman had given Oxford one of the biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college-but had insisted on remaining anonymous. Who was he? Announcing the gift last fall, Vice Chancellor John Lowe said he knew but wouldn't tell; the mysterious donor could just go on being Monsieur X (TIME, Sept...
...criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in Kensington...
...Grapefruit League of House basketball opened and closed yesterday as Lowell trounced a squad from the Oxford Secretarial School, 82 to 30. Regular pre-exam play begins today with a game between Adams and Dudley...
...Oxford, which had issued a challenge to play the best Harvard intramural basketball team, was "fast-breaked off the floor," as one player put it. The Bellboys, paced by Goldie Goldsmith (26 points), John Altrocchi (24), and Mike Post (17), were continually getting behind the Oxford defenses with hard, accurate passes, and scoring on simple shots...