Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piped up X-ray man Joe Murphy, "we had the pictures ready for examination five minutes from the time they were ordered. That Freshman was in bed in time to hear the last of the game over the radio...
...been "kidnapped by an adventuress." Marshal Clark, an old buffalo hunter and army man who prided himself on never having used violence in executing a court order, at first seemed stymied by Mrs. Barnett's tactics. But early one morning when his customary audience was home in bed, he and twelve deputies cautiously moved up on the house. Mrs. Barnett, in the back yard feeding her pet cockatoo, ran in, bolted the door...
...Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder of the World, A. D. 1192-1250. Of him it is recorded that he took two knights and gave them identical meals. One of these knights he then sent out hunting and the other he ordered to bed. Several hours later he killed both and examined the contents of their alimentary canals. He found that digestion had proceeded further in the stomach of the sleeping knight. All will agree that this was a good experiment, but whether it can be classed as clinical or animal experimentation remains doubtful...
...Then the shiny, long, important train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between the sheets. It sight placidly once or twice, then relaxes. Vag stands beside the engine, his pipe glowing like a miniature firebox...
Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers' conference at Albany, N. Y. last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies...