Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour of meditation right after breakfast each morning. During this hour he ruminates upon "who I am, why I'm here and where I'm going." Then he begins a round of activity so strenuous that he often breaks off for a half hour's nap. While he was on a recent trip to New York City, the janitor of Manhattan's Riverside Church was amazed to come upon him stretched out, dead to the world, on one of the pews...
...turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily in the hot sun as the big gas bags, their sides painted with advertisements of the local brewers and corsetiers, began to take shape like elephants rising from a nap...
Picasso's Oriental Deer is delicate and fleet enough to outrun one of Buffon's best rhapsodies. His Grasshoppers-which, like Buffon, he conceives as armored leaping machines-are pictured with the immediacy of a farmer awakening from a nap in the field to find them right under his nose. The vital, trembling Horse looks exactly like what Buffon must have meant when he said horses were "the noblest conquest man has ever made...
...complete absence of a coordinated Russian area study at Harvard appears today to be the result of a short nap taken by University planners over a year ago. While other colleges moved early and fast to get a program centering around the-most-talked-about nation into motion, plans here are still in the drawing board stage and there is yet no promise that the important hole will be plugged by next fall...
...year-old, wrote Dr. McCluskie in the medical journal Lancet, twelve hours at night and a 2½-hour morning nap is sleep enough. A three-year-old needs only twelve hours, including nap; a five-year-old, eleven hours; an eleven-year-old, ten hours. A half-hour variation from this schedule, warned the doctor, may induce masturbation, surreptitious reading in bed, restlessness and inability to concentrate in school...