Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition) Party. The sentences of death, imposed just as dawn was breaking, were ordered carried out by a firing squad at high noon the same day. Wearily the officer-judges clunked and clanked home to bed...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...
...district, rents a hovel alongside some hundred others. She changes her name to Cherie, becomes all that the name implies. So many men of so many nationalities pass through her arms that she only thinks of them, like hurdling sheep, to keep insomnia away. The money in the hollow bed-leg rises coin by coin...
Surveying of the Eliot House campus is now being carried on to prepare for the planting of shrubbery and a number of trees. It is expected that a flower bed will be laid alongside the brick terrace...
...Cottage Farm Bridges was obtained from excavations in various parts of the city, the filling now is largely being taken from the bottom of the basin. Borings were taken at 500 foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard pan. A curious thing that was made apparent, after dredging began, was that in sections...