Word: kant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impertinent child shrilly shouted to purchasers to buy nothing but Indian goods. Brandishing their long lathis, policemen swooped down, arrested the child as a picketer and hauled him off to court where a short tempered magistrate sentenced him to four years imprisonment. The child's name was Krishna Kant. He was nine years old. Snapped the magistrate...
...ready to die for Gandhi," said Krishna Kant...
Half of India had heard of Krishna Kant next day. Nationalist agitators thanked their stars for an easy martyr. Wholesale arrests continued. Indian papers printed page-long lists of political convictions. In Bombay, crowds searched houses for British cloth, built bonfires of it in the streets. Bengal police fired into a crowd, killed one, wounded...
...Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume, Kant and Croce...
...pride of their youth set out to build up a Radcliffe tradition. She had chestnut hair, in long braids; she had large, low heeled, button shoes; she had cotton stockings. She wandered into the library like the witch of Endor and enquired if the lost volume of Kant had been returned. She raised Christian eye brows when a student said, "Hell." She peered through thick glasses and talked through a shiny nose. A thoroughly unattractive figure...