Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter at night and trains make better time...
...Sleeper. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., a power-line worker spied a companion in a peculiar attitude atop a 60-ft. pole, quietly climbed to him, gently awoke him from a sound sleep...
United Air Lines Trip 4 swung east toward Wasatch Mountains, began the half circle that would bring it in over Salt Lake City airport from the south. It was 11 o'clock at night, and most of the passengers on the sky sleeper were in their beds. The red, white and green lights of the landing field twinkled mistily under a drizzling rain, but ceiling and visibility were not bad: 1,600 feet and nine miles...
...tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
Holabird will judge the contest, assisted by H. Scott Sleeper '42, assistant chairman of the Photography Committee. Entries should be submitted to the janitor's office, Eliot House. All prize-winning pictures will appear in the Album...