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Word: insomnia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been generally known. After asserting that Prince George had been "staying at Sunningdale and devoting a large part of his time to golf," Major Alexander said: "It must always be borne in mind that his digestion is weak and. what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insomniac | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insomniac | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Birthday. Prince George of England; at Sunningdale where he has been suffering from insomnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...must admit the extreme novelty of the experiment. It is an upward step in human progress; but there is no practical gain, for it is already accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTTOMS UP | 12/5/1929 | See Source »

...contents of TIME between covers continues to be the best reading in the country and the only criticism I make is the observation that, having chronic insomnia, I have formed the habit of perusing the magazine during wakeful hours, and it is far from a soporific and I need a mental sedative rather than a mental stimulant. Unless you can insert some poetry between advertisements I shall have to find a substitute for TIME for night reading. The only poetry I can comprehend is limericks. Perhaps you will suggest some particularly stupid magazine guaranteed to produce sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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