Word: sinclairism
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There's lots to do if your book isn't interesting. They have the Farnsworth room, which is an exact replica of a 19th century library, with all the old books and everything. But they have some Sinclair Lewis novels if you want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment...
...SINCLAIR OIL, along with Carter Oil and Socony-Vacuum, has just brought in the first well in what may be a rich new oilfield in the Williston Basin 100 miles northwest of Bismarck...
...experts, to the man responsible for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America." Past committees have honored such sky milestones as the practical parachute, the blind-landing system, the twin-engine commercial transport, the air offensive against Germany, the first supersonic flight.* Last week the trophy went to Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, United Aircraft Corp.'s vice president for engineering. His achievement: development and production of the J-57, the world's most powerful production jet engine...
...digging deeper, they bring up Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White, he can counter with James B. Conant, Edwin Colu, Christian Herter, Leveret Saltonstall, Percy Bridgeman, Franklin Roosevelt, Sinclair Weeks and Thomas Lamont. The University is not deficient on this score...
...attack was primarily aimed at Chairman Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, and at what he termed the "heavy men" of the board-Gov. Christian A. Herter '15, Sinclair Weeks '14, and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall...