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Word: napping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a three-year-old daughter who insists on taking it to bed with her every afternoon for her nap, in place of a doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...some enemy of my subject to do the same . . . then I ask [the subject] a list of routine questions that would draw the truth out of a stone. When that is over I ask . . . the story of his life. While he is telling it I take a nap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairy Tale Among Factories* | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Bellwood, Pa., Donald W. Wertz, driving a loaded ice truck, hailed a stranger confidently: "I have 20 cases of beer on that truck. You can help yourself if you watch it while I take a nap." The stranger arrested sleepy Mr. Wertz, for he was E. D. James, local chief of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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