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Word: oxfords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crazy Mixed-Up Cad | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to be born, and Stone has certainly wasted no time in cashing in his chips...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Squalid Life in Mississippi: The Same Old Tale Retold | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...ancient seat of learning has seen far too much to be startled by the carryings-on of its scholars. Just the same, a 22-year-old Rhodes scholar from California's Pomona College has aroused a certain mild wonder at Oxford University's Merton College. Blond Kristoffer Kristofferson is a modest, husky (5 ft. 11 in., 165 lbs.) youth, and had he stuck quietly to his study of English literature, chances are that few of his Oxford friends would have discovered what an uncommon sort was swallowing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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