Word: sleepier
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...Lamont's new plan will be fairer to the casual offender without taking the sting out of fines. The library, by charging twenty-five cents each tardy half hour, will provide the conscientious student with an opportunity to save and will no longer penalize him so much as his sleepier companions...
Filling all his jobs as the Journal's janitor, newsboy, ad salesman, reporter and make-up man keeps Owner-Editor Sancton hopping. He has also learned to make concessions to the sleepier standards of country journalism. When Royal Canadian Mounties nabbed Quebec's biggest cigarette smuggler in Stanstead County, Sancton filed a story to his old paper in Montreal. Correspondent Sancton scooped Editor Sancton by two days. But Journal readers were more interested in news of abiding matters-the farms, the factories, the water supply and the schools. Says happy Editor Sancton: "You visit a small town...
...told you . . . that Murray was sleepy? How did you arrive at the conclusion that Murray is sleepier than Cairo, Ill.? Have you or any of your roving "asses of the barn" ever been to Murray...
...appears that you . . . crawled up into the haymow in the loft and went to sleep. And, in your journalistic slumber, your uninformed, vague subconscious mind caused you to use the adjective "sleepier" about the most wide-awake town in Kentucky...
...your high-powered fact-finding sensation mongers would like to visit this "sleepier" town, the Chamber of Commerce will pay your fare here & return by Pullman or plane, feed you on Southern fried chicken and hickory-cured Kentucky ham with all the trimmings, and, what is more, we'll even try to wear our shoes while you are here...