Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working on reports, who want to gather their books around them and "set". For these, ten o'clock in the evening comes much too soon. They are deep in point 2, or they are on the trail of the reasons for point 3. They are certainly not ready for bed at ten o'clock. But when the lights go out in Widener they must either break the thread of their work until next day, wasting a valuable hour or two of the evening, or collect their books and chattels, sign slips for as many volumes as possible, and carry them...
...number who would profit by the plan may be numbered by those in the Library any night now at ten o'clock for almost all who stay until that hour would naturally prefer to continue until bed-time; and those who left would be replaced by others who had early-evening engagements and chose, to put in an hour or two of study afterward. The University, eager as it is to encourage study by any possible means, will find the extra outlay valuable from that point of view, and gratefully received by the students...
...Then came the war, and, like Merriwell, Matty enlisted and went to France. Flu and gas brought on tuberculosis. Big Six was pronounced dying. Thirteen months in bed did not daunt his spirit. Neither did he weaken in the rest of his fight. Like Frank Merriwell in a similar position...
...HAVEN, CONN., March 4.--The Yale hockey squad is in practically as good condition as the University, although Bulkeley, the regular left wing, and Vaughan, the regular right defense, are at present slightly incapacitated. Bulkeley is in bed with a slight cold, while Vaughan is troubled by a back injury received in the Westminster game; however both are expected to play against Harvard on Wednesday...
...night's sleep, on a soft bed, in midair, and a thousand miles traveled between sunset and sunrise...