Word: sinclairism
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...Firemen discover Robert Sinclair, unharmed but shaken, in his room, and he escapes. His fifth-floor bedroom is smoky and covered with three inches of water...
...blocked by flames at the top of the stairs leading to the living room. They try to escape through the emergency exits, but the doorknob breaks off. They beat on the door with the broken knob until neighboring students open the door from the adjoining suite. Unnoticed, Robert L. Sinclair '67 remains asleep in his room...
...second fire company arrives, bringing the number of fire fighters to 107, and the equipment to 17 pieces. Fire breaks through sixth-floor windows on the west side of the House. Rumors spread that Robert Sinclair has not been evacuated...
David is presently a director of several companies, including the Ford Motor Company, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Pan American World Airways, and Sinclair Oil Corporation. He is a trustee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations...
...Dorothy L. Sayers, Geoffrey L. Bickersteth and Laurence Binyon have severally translated La Commedia into rhyming tercets, and translated it amazingly well. John D. Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader without Italian, the most satisfactory versions are those in blank verse. Lawrence Grant White is both accurate and musical, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though his diction is at times antique, presents passages of stunning power and precision. Unfortunately, neither of these is readily available at this writing. In preparing...