Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame for this situation must rest on the College and House administrations, which have come to assume that the Committees will bear part of the financial burden. If certain facilities, in addition to bed, board, and plumbing, are important for House living, their cost should be met by University funds rather than by donation. Meanwhile, House Committees must resort to begging until provided other income for their work...
...baffling variety of symptoms. All had high temperatures-half of them went over 100°. Nearly all had tender, enlarged lymph nodes, tenderness in the abdomen, and pharyngitis. A few were first treated as outpatients, but soon had to be admitted to the hospital. There, with no treatment but bed rest and a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet, they unaccountably got worse. Their livers, which had been enlarged in most cases on admission, became bigger, and so tender that the airmen resisted the medics' efforts to examine them. Half of them also had enlarged and sensitive spleens...
...Constantinople (553). May's backers recalled. "Kinsolving's theology is sensationalism," said one clergyman. "He preaches on sex and questions the virgin birth. He's completely different from the rest of us in every way-he gets up at 11 in the morning and goes to bed...
...When the President went to sleep . . . how many blankets were on the bed...
...James Graham pleased Londoners in the 1780s by opening a "Hymeneal Temple." Centerpiece of this edifice was the "Celestial Bed," over which "presided" a pretty young healer named Miss Emma Lyons. Gentlemen who found the "Celestial Bed" (fee: ?100 per night) somewhat fatiguing could retreat to another bed to be refreshed with charges of "Magneto-Electric" virility (fee: ?50 per night). Dr. Graham soon abdicated from his "Electrical Throne," but Emma Lyons married Sir William Hamilton and, in due course, became the historic sharer of the celestial bed of Admiral Lord Nelson...