Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spanish cultural counselor in Washington, who speaks fine Oxford English. They were banqueted and shown through factories; they went shopping, and saw a bullfight...
...Copyright 1949 by Oxford University Press...
...truth came out with a minor bang: PEER'S NEPHEW AS FACTORY HAND. Proletarian Mr. Green, it seemed, was simply the pseudonym of socialite Mr. Yorke. After writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally...
STALIN: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (600 pp.)-Isaac Deufscher-Oxford...
Professor Hammond reminisced about his own days as a Rhodes Scholar and then told about the 32 awards available each year providing American students with approximately two years at Oxford...