Word: sanskrit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time, and proceeds to probe into the motives of the business man. The wheels of the large corporation, the relative advantages of the various forms of business enterprise, the actions of the stock market and the types of securities, in rapid-fire succession. Even future professors of Sanskrit, now undergraduates, would do well to take this course in order to learn where their breakfast bacon comes from, and why Bacon, Preferred sells around 30 these days. Dr. Opie will alternate with Professor Dewing, and what Professor Dewing does for the corporation's past, Dr. Opie may be expected...
College of Propaganda. Last week the Pope attended graduation exercises in the 300-year-old College of Propaganda in Rome. The college, alma mater of polyglot gospellers, produced for the Pope's edification graduation speeches in 25 tongues and dialects. Among them: Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chaldean, Japanese, Siamese, Kaffir, Gaelic, Rumanian, Magyar. Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues...
...imagine," the article runs, "a university announcing to its prospective freshmen that they must submit to an examination on a given day and refusing to tell whether it would be in Sanskrit, chemistry, trigonometry, biology, or psychology? A football player would be almost equally at sea if he had no idea of the type of game which his opponent would play, for the possibilities are as varied as the branches of scholastic learning, or would be if every coaching camp carried the possible variations of the game through to their extreme limits...
...your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...number of bundles without making an examination of the rest. I then squatted in the cave and in the course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit, in Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic and of some other Chinese works of a historical or literary character, all of them ranging from...