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...Trieste, an insomnia contest prize of 1,000 lire was shared by a hairdresser and a bartender who stayed awake more than 97 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1923 | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...second sketch, "Insomnia," is a local version of the "City of Dreadful Night" before those "damned exams!" We shudder our admiration...

Author: By Joseph LEITER ., | Title: REVIEWER FINDS LATEST NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LIVELY | 3/7/1921 | See Source »

William Penrose Hallowell, Jr., '15, of Minneapolis, Minn., died suddenly in his room in Hampden Hall yesterday afternoon. He had been troubled with insomnia and it is believed that he took an overdose of sleeping powders. He was found dead at 5 o'clock by M. M. Mitchell '15, of Winchester, who was a great friend of Hallowell's and had arranged to dine with the latter last evening. Hallowell was a graduate of Middlesex School. He was interested in track athletics, and last year was a member of the Freshman track squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary | 3/24/1913 | See Source »

...come off. Successful caricature should result in characterization; it should remain essentially true, for its exaggeration is only for the sake of emphasis. But the sketch, though only a farce, is nevertheless amusing. In the present number the Freshmen have overshadowed the Faculty. The lines entitled, "Thou Victim of Insomnia," are more clever than kindly...

Author: By Carleton Noyes., | Title: Lampoon Criticism by Mr. Noyes. | 11/13/1903 | See Source »

...General Debility, 1 10 6 9 8 9 4 8 6 3 64 Headache, 1 8 16 15 11 5 20 13 9 98 Indigestion, 2 45 72 49 29 31 55 44 36 9 372 Insomnia, 3 2 2 2 3 2 1 15 Jaundice, 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 11 La Grippe, 2 16 9 19 18 25 7 3 99 Laryngitis, 1 5 5 2 1 4 4 22 Malaria, 5 2 2 2 4 3 6 2 26 Measles, 4 9 15 14 42 Miscellaneous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statistics of Illness in the University for the Year 1901-1902. | 3/10/1903 | See Source »

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