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Word: oxfords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trained economist, educated at posh Westminster and at Oxford, Gaitskell preaches a brand of socialism that leftists talk scornfully of as "milk and water" ("If we want to snore ourselves to Sweden, this is the way"). As his closest advisers, he prefers university-trained economists rather than the men who have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: Britain: Gaitskell Wins | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Last year Tate taught at Oxford and the university at Leeds. He also lectured in Greece and found the audiences as receptive as they could be, considering the little access they have to American books...

Author: By Nancy Smiler, | Title: Professor and Poet Allen Tate Concludes Teaching Is Best Way For Writer to Earn A Living | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...reach the final round, each Crimson crew defeated three opposing shells. The heavies met their greatest competition from the Isis Boat Club, composed of rowers from the Oxford varsity crew. The Union Boat Club, coached by last year's lightweight mentor, the Reverend "Joe" Brown, provided the closest race for the lightweight eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Shells Triumph at Henley; Heavies Take Grand Challenge Cup | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...

Author: By Judith A. Phillips, | Title: Loudspeaker Rules China; Britain: Quiescence Is Rule | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

ROBERT ROGERS OF THE RANGERS (299 pp.)-John R. Cuneo-Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forest Fighter | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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