Word: farrier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Macaulay's lordly eloquence had carried the day for English against Oriental rivals. He had heaped scorn on India's backward tongues-they taught "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings 30 feet high and reigns 30,000 years long, and geography made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter . . ." He had acclaimed English as the key "to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the world have created and hoarded in the course...
During the afternoon session the participants were: Dean Williams; Clarence W. Farrier, assistant to the president of Gunnison Homes, Inc.; J. Anton de Haas, William Zeigler Professor of International Relationships; and Harry A. Winne, vice-president in charge of engineering policy of General Electric Company...