Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because he read so much, he acquired a reputation for having an immense fund of knowledge, a reputation which spread throughout Europe as well as America. For example, when he visited the Bodleian Library at Oxford, he asked the librarian for help in answering an enormously difficult question. "Sir," came the reply, "there is only one person in the world who might be able to answer that question, and that is Professor Kittredge of Harvard...
...instructor of English in 1888. Immediately popular with the Faculty and the student body, he soon became a full professor, and in 1917 was named Gurney Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Although he was given a plethora of honorary degrees (from Harvard, Oxford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Brown, Trinity, Union and Colby), he never received a Ph.D. "Who," he replied when someone asked why not, "could examine...
Pajarito and his countrymen had been completely convinced by a compact (5 ft. 3 in.; 124 Ibs.) little man whose square name is Okon Bassey Asuque, Esq., M.B.E.* His ebony fists are probably the swiftest pair of weapons in the prize ring, and his Oxford-accented speech is certainly the rarest: "When I awoke the morning of the fight and saw it was raining, I actually wept. I was emotionally prepared to fight that night, and a delay would have been annoying...
...Using the traditional English stroke with its long layback, a favored Cambridge crew led Oxford and its American-style oarsmen all the way along the 4-mile-374-yd. course on the rain-and-wind-roiled Thames and won by 3½ lengths...
...second in Jamaica and Trinidad. But a nearly unanimous Socialist vote from the Windwards and Leewards gave the Federal Labor Party an overall majority, with 25 seats. Barring shifts of allegiance by F.L.P. members, the legislature seems certain to elect the F.L.P.'s Sir Grantley Adams, 59, an Oxford-educated lawyer, Premier of Barbados, as first Prime Minister of The West Indies...