Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted by the fact that mathematicians have slaved for centuries over the problem of trisecting an angle, Harvey "Scott" Sleeper '42, of Eliot House pondered about it in his spare time and has at last developed a mechanical means of graphically solving the problem...
WASHINGTON--The fatal crash of an Eastern Airplanes sleeper plane near Atlanta today revived the bitter Congressional fight which last year almost blocked reorganization of the Civil Aeronautics authority...
Professor Cabot will preside at the conference. The speakers at the daytime sessions on Saturday, February 15, at the Business School, will be George S. Petiee, Instructor in Government at Harvard, on "The World Crisis;" Professor Cabot, on "Will The Sleeper Awake;" Howard T. Lewis, professor of Marketing on "Production for Defense;" and Colonol Quinton...
...sleeper pulled out of South Station at 12:45 o'clock last night containing 31 Crimson gridiron performers and an entourage of coaches, trainers and managers. The train is due to arrive in Philadelphia at 10:15 this morning, and the squad will be hustled out to get a look at Franklin Field, the scone of Saturday's battle...
...frame is a sheet-metal box, its "mattress" a cushion of air enclosed by the frame and a sheet of fabric stretched across its top. The fabric is treated so that it is almost, but not quite, impermeable to air. Thus the air in the cushion, though supporting the sleeper, slowly escapes from the bed and envelops him. The mattress does not collapse because more air is delivered to the bed from pressure tanks and. since air under pressure is cooled by expansion when it escapes, it reaches the bed at 52°. This is fine for hot nights...