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Word: oxon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxon Hill, Md., Rosecroft Music Circus: Brigadoon, starring Doretta Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Oxon Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

State of Emergency. The Southerner was Samuel Ladoke Akintola (B.A., Oxon), slick-talking Yoruba lawyer who had just resigned as Minister of Labor in Nigeria's central Council of Ministers. A nationalist who wants home rule (within the British Commonwealth) by 1956, Akintola had journeyed to Kano hoping to arrange a meeting which would whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters-who in the main are just, if aloof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bloodshed in Nigeria | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Former Under Secretary of State Sum, ner Welles, 59, called in a Manhattan real-estate firm to find a buyer for his famed 245-acre Oxon Hill Manor estate in Maryland, the weekend relaxing spot for many an oldtime New Dealer. Estimated value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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