Word: insomniac
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...Washington, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent...
...specially trained mental nurses; extra cots must be provided for transients on nights before quizzes; and, for safety's sake, separate wards will be needed for different subjects. College life will again become a less strenuous occupation: the word "school" will again mean leisure. But heaven help the insomniac...