Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such payment!. Ten dollars to move a bed and bureau from Russell to Randolph! Twelve dollars to move a desk, a bed, a bureau and a table from one room in Randolph to another! The work in either case could not have taken two men more than one hour. The students who refuse to pay such prices-- and there have been a few such defiant spirits--are almost excusable, if not justified, but their position is at best very doubtful. Even those who made contracts calling for a definite advance payment find the price demand entirely cut of proportion...
Several hundred University students were roused out of bed after midnight last night by a four-alarm fire on Western Avenue, which seemed from all but the Freshman Dormitories to be on Soldiers Field. Starting at 11.45 o'clock, the conflagration, which nearly consumed the J. D. McPhee Company's Stairway and Cabinet factory and woodsheds, quickly gained headway. More than 2000 people witnessed the conflagration...
...this opportunity. To the freshman as well, the course will offer an opportunity for making wise provision against a rainy day. To him divisionals still seem a dim and distant horror, a cloud no bigger than a man's hand". But the storm comes on space and the death-bed absolution furnished at great cost by tutoring bureaus is apt to be a sorry affair...
Coach Fisher is "certain to spend a great deal of time on the team B men in the next few week and only at the end of that time will it bed possible to judge how strong the Crimson's threat in November will be. Injuries in even slightly more than normal numbers might ruin what promises to be an extraordinary eleven...
...probable that nothing in a daily newspaper fascinates the average reader more than a good murder story? When one considers how many books that drip blood are sold yearly, what multitudes of people have crawled shuddering to bed after reading about Marie Roget or the two unfortunates in the Rue Morgue, one must wonder if under the veneer of civilization each person is not an incipient head-hunter. But the conclusion does not necessarily follow. To the average man, if there is such a creature, life is only too mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac...