Word: gould
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...Alexander Csoma de Kb'ros, originally hoping to discover the Hungarians' remote ancestry, did his arduous philological pioneering in a Tibetan monastery more than a century ago. Authors of the new work are two British civil servants who have worked in Tibet and India, Sir Basil John Gould and Hugh Edward Richardson...
...Gould-Richardson simplification approaches Tibetan along a new trail familiar to children who have played with codes. It breaks down the study of the language into syllables and corresponding numbers. Using both, the student can put together words (lam means road, lam-chak means railroad, lam-yik means passport) and can link up written forms with phonetic values. Handy Tibetan phrases...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
...Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears became so good at this game that he revolutionized it with a new stroke of his own called the "American twist" service, which Jay Gould later used to win the world championship...
Heiress Marjorie Gould Drexel Gundry, 27, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould, daughter of Philadelphia's Main Line Anthony J. Drexels, offered no defense against charges that she had stolen a yacht captain from his wife, who thus won a suit for alienation of affections. Mrs. Axel Julius Danielson, wife of the yacht captain, who worked for Mrs. Gundry, asked $100,000 damages...