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Word: suo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latin Authours ex tempore, and make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in the Greeke toungue, then may hee bee admitted into the College...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Start of Harvard Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...Suo. Since first publication in England 18 months ago, The Third Eye has sold close to 300,000 copies, 12,000 of them in the U.S. From all over the world fan mail poured in to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery. For, announced Burgess, his name is neither Rampa nor Kuan Suo but plain Cyril Henry Hoskin, and he is the son of a Devon plumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Ghost. Hoskin had "gone Eastern" while working for a career-counseling firm in London. He shaved his head, grew a beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

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