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...technique was simple he would take the whole pile into bed with him and hack away at it until he fell asleep. The funny thing was, he told us, the grades got much better as he got sleepier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Those Who Can't, Teach | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...study. You give up and head to bed early, as you will every day for the rest of the week. You will eat, sleep, and--most of all--row. For an entire week, crew will be foremost in your mind. You will be hungrier, sorer, and sleepier, than you've ever been before, but when it's over each day you pat your tight stomach with pride before you fall asleep in the warmth and luxurious softness of your...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Eat, Sleep and ... Row | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

...There is south on Highway One, you know, the one that goes through Ipswich et al. Highway One peters out in downtown Key West, Florida--they just closed down the naval air station so the town will probably be even sleepier than it ever was. After a couple of days of the palm trees and all their concomitants, you'll probably be ready for the pedal steel guitars. Well, the only places I know of to look for pedal steel music are two perhaps figmentary, (because they're only mentioned in songs) but pretty concrete (at least in the images...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

...late summer afternoon, when the quiet streets of the new German capital were even sleepier than usual, our conversation turned to what I would be doing when I returned to America...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin ., | Title: The Tragedy of German Rearmament | 1/27/1955 | See Source »

...allergies such as hay fever, researchers at France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories found that the drug made many people sleepy. For a world in need of sedatives, they took the logical step of trying to put together a related chemical that would make people even sleepier. What they found (in 1950) and first tagged 4560-RP, or chlorpromazine hydrochloride,* is now the most exciting new drug seeking recognition in the world's pharmacopoeias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wonder Drug of 1954? | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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