Word: sanskrit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened...
...Passive resistance has never been complete enough to accomplish anything in the past and has resulted in violence by hoodlums which gradually subsides into nothing" stated Walter E. Clark '03. Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House in a broadcast over the Crimson Network...
...language most lawyers use might just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far as the layman is concerned. But no man, no matter how lay, would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan...
...Stafford Cripps failed in his mission to India because he could not overcome the stubborn and misguided idealism of the Indian nationalist leaders, Ghandi and Nehru," Walter Eugene Clark. Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, asserted yesterday...
Future speakers from the University and other colleges around Boston will discuss problems of war-time cooperation between the United Nations and plans for the post-war world. Next week, Walter E. Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, will speak on "India" in the next program of the series...