Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will eat his box lunch in Mallinckrodt, where the rest of his day is passed; he will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with the loud ticks of the alarm clock beating on his weary and tortured brain. On the other hand, there are men who refuse to sacrifice all for science. Although they do an amount of work which would be considered satisfactory in most other fields, in Chemistry or Biology they...
...plan, as was announced in October, is to straighten the present sharp curve of the river opposite Soldiers Field and to put a bridge across the new bed. This bridge will be built on the dry land on the Boston side of the projection formed by the curve and the channel dug under it after the bridge is completed...
...week wore on, as State Department conferences followed one another, Commissar Litvinoff came to realize that the trip was not to be entirely a bed of Red roses. He wanted to sign first and talk about details later. The State Department wanted to talk first, for an inquisitive Senate would have many a ticklish question to ask before it passed a recognition treaty, and sign later. When Secretary Hull sailed away to the Pan-American Congress, President Roosevelt took formal charge of the negotiations...
Gaudy prostitutes from Berlin's West End hotels and night clubs, who are rarely seen on the streets by daylight, piled out of bed and trudged sleepily to the polls, minced home again wearing little buttons with the legend...
...bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting of nations, Lord Curzon found himself without a single pair of pants with which to face the gathered ambassadors...