Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not the Red and Blue is really a "sleeper" which can spin the Varsity's undefeated record will be seen tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Blockhouse pool, when Captain Chuck Hoelzer and his mates take to the water for the last time before the big meet with Yale next Saturday...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...
...favored on depth," Barnaby declared, "but we can't promise anything since we'll be in strange courts after a night on the sleeper." Last year the Crimson defeated McGill...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin is reputed a restless sleeper; he rarely gets to bed before 2 a.m. But last week, Stalin sent the world a soporific greeting (with a wakeful edge). Six British Laborites, led by pro-Communist M.P. Konni Zilliacus, visited Stalin at his seaside villa at Sochi (where he recently ended his triumphal inspection of the Soviet Fleet-see cut). To his callers, the Generalissimo said...
Could anyone in the world sleep more easily because of Stalin's bedtime message? Jan Christian Smuts is reputed a sound sleeper, chiefly because he gets to bed early, has often slept on camp cots or iron beds. But last week South Africa's weather-beaten, 77-year-old Prime Minister spoke of troubled nights. To women members of his United Party gathered in Pretoria he said: "Have you ever had the experience of waking at 2 o'clock in the morning in a sweat of not knowing how to solve the problems of tomorrow...