Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...
...most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
...pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There was a rumor that famed Tennis Player William Tatem Tilden Jr. would appear in The Buzzard. He went off to play tennis instead...
...stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences of our undergraduates and by making it a hot bed where ideas can germinate and find a voice. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
...Hours of rising, eating, tooth-brushing, getting to bed, or turning out lights...