Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ABOVE the entrance to the Sterling Law Buildings at Yale, there are two panels of bas relief. One shows a medieval classroom with the professor asleep; the other pictures an ancient courtroom with the judge asleep...
...letters arrive, to be opened and acknowledged by a staff of 40 healthful helpers. By the mysterious process of attunement, healing begins at the moment when Edwards or one of his assistants reads the letter. "In absent healing, we touch most of those people when they are asleep," Edwards explains. "We help children who are too young to have faith...
Self-Tuning Radio. For listeners who want to fall asleep to soft music on one station and wake up to loud jazz on another, Radio Corp. of America has marketed a new clock radio. Slumber King has a new control device that is preset to shift the dial and change the volume at the desired time. Price...
...last week, House Speaker Joseph Martin Jr. tucked his shaggy forelock under a soft fedora, put on his new gale coat, shook hands with Vice President Richard Nixon and boarded a chartered airliner. A few minutes later, Dick Nixon climbed into another plane, took his seat and promptly fell asleep. His immediate destination was Columbus; Martin's was Newark. The two top Republican congressional campaigners were off on the first legs of journeys which would carry them the length and breadth of the land before the November elections...
...Spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), "Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold" (Algernon Swinburne), "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" (Alfred Lord Tennyson), and finally, the suggestion of a reader named W. A. Ingram, who submitted: "As in old wine lies summer half asleep." The author, revealed Reader Ingram, was something less than immortal; he was an Unidentified American friend who penned the lines during an argument on "the merits of adapting poetry to commercial uses...