Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next morning, correspondent William Hard, a personal friend of the McCormicks, telephoned to Mr. McCormick. There was no answer to his call. He went to the hotel and, after investigation, the door of Mr. McCormick's room was taken down. The Senator lay in bed, his hand over his mouth as if to stop the flow of blood which covered the bedclothes. He had died about an hour before, so quickly that he had not had time to summon aid. Thus ended his career-a career that began in a family of distinction and ended at a time when...
...weed-bed has been broken up and scattered by storms and the ship's wireless has proved useful in enabling the ship to learn of the location of patches of the weed from other vessels in the vicinity...
...with a $3,000,000 endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made. The minimum age was set at 120 years...
Premier Benito Mussolini went for a motor ride. Premier Mussolini, caught a cold. The cold proved to be influenza. The Premier went to bed. The Senate adjourned in consequence. Bulletins were issued: "The Premier has influenza." "The Premier's condition is improving." Finally: "The Premier is well and will be permitted to quit his bed in a few days." The Senate and Chamber of Deputies decided to reconvene...
...Manhattan, Henry L. Doherty, financier, lives in a bungalow atop a skyscraper,* sleeps in the open air. One morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses in a warm room, climbs pajamaed into bed, presses a button, the bed slides out to the roof, an automatic door opening before it, closing behind it. Financier Doherty awakes, presses a button, the bed crawls into his room, the door clicks, he dresses...