Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chin Hin, a member of the Hip Sing Tong, locked the thin door of his hall-bedroom, went to sleep. He was awakened by a soft repeated, terrifying knocking on the door. Summoning all his courage, he flung it open. There was no one outside. He returned to bed. An interval of silence; the sound began again. Once more Chin Hin, with cold sweat starting from him, threw open the door; once more he was met by vacancy. He turned his key; almost instantly, the knocking was resumed. Chin Hin, deranged by terror, jumped out of the window...
...pilot train hastening through the night to Huetel, down the tracks from Buenos Aires. . . Behind it a train of gorgeously fitted cars drawn by two engines . . . In a spacious bed, a sleeping Prince...
...Amnesia," said the doctor kindly; "amnesia," said the internes excitedly; "amnesia" pityingly said the nurse who undressed her, bathed her and put her tenderly to bed...
...TIME, Aug. 24) came to a close after all those tested had maintained a state of voluntary insomnia for 60 hours. Two of the students, Watson Monroe and Lester Petrie, continued without sleep for 20 hours more. Then, still protesting that they "felt fine," they were bundled off to bed...
...Manhattan, one Louis Charchowsky went to bed, put out the light. The night was warm. His apartment, which he rented from one Louis Lesch, also a painter, was stifling. Painter Charchowsky tossed on his couch. The heat, far from diminishing as night deepened, grew worse and worse. Paniter Charchowsky, now well-nigh charred, flung back his reeking sheets. To his delirious senses it seemed that the steam heat was singing and sputtering, that it gave off heat. He put his hand against it, rushed to the basement, found the furnace in full blast, brought suit next day against Landlord Lesch...