Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight tooth and nail against the oil interests that are seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...
...books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...
Alumni have shown no lack of interest in the growth of athletic and even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system...
Every author yearns at some time or other to write a book of the weird or supernatural. Recently May Sinclair gave herself rein with such a book and now E. F. Benson, rather than suppress the desire and become such stuff as Freudians feed on, has written "Visible and Invisible." (Dorah...
...Harry F. Sinclair in refusing to testify began his refusal with the following words...