Word: nap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Carr sent the squad through its last home practice yesterday in a practice game against at team of graduate school players formed by Nap Hardenberg, star of last year's championship team...
...Realist, Vice President John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
...chief losses are at halfback and fullback, where positions were left vacant by Robin Scully, who decided to graduate in three years, and Nap Hardenberg, a resident of South Africa, who has left school to join the British army. It Carr can fill these positions with reserves or Jayvees from last year or with two of the three or four capable kickers from the class of '42, he will have few major worries...
...September 3 last, Ambassador Kennedy ordered his No. 2 Personal Secretary James Seymour to form a small staff for regular night duty. Seymour bought a collapsible cot (by day it is folded up behind the Ambassador's black sofa) and took the first "lobster trick." He had no nap that night or since. By 3 a. m. he phoned Ambassador Kennedy at his country house that the Athenia was sinking, torpedoed by a German submarine, with 1,418 people aboard, some 300 of them Americans (TIME, Sept. 11. Kennedy cabled to Franklin Roosevelt: "All on Athenia rescued except those...
...ready to peruse his newspaper. Sometimes he goes for a stroll about the building . . . maybe even going so far as to visit his project. ... In the afternoon he may bring in a book and read awhile until he is ready to stretch out on the bench and take a nap. . . . 'My only comment,' he said, 'would be to hell with whoever woke...