Word: seitel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rockefeller’s spokesman Frank Seitel said yesterday however that Rockefeller had always intended to give just the $10 million. He added that Rockefeller “admired” Summers’ commitment to providing all undergraduates with the opportunity to go abroad...
...Rockefeller also regretted that President Summers wasn’t going to be leading the university,” Seitel said. However, he added that the philanthropist “has great confidence in Harvard and is a strong supporter and looks forward to working with whoever the next president...
Many a compositor and newsman keeps a scrapbook of the most devastating misprints that come to his eye, most of them unreprintable. But few collections, if any, can rival that of Louis N. Seitel of the Brooklyn Public Library who with serious purpose for ten years has combed books as well as periodicals for errors of fact, expression and typography. His trophies number about 10,000. Typical "howler" in the Seitel collection: (from Short Stories of Soviet Russia) "Then, above his eye, a fish flashed out and broke his teeth...
| 1 |