Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have you ever cried during a comedy or laughed in the midst of a drama? Have you ever felt cold in a heat wave or warm during a snowstorm? Have you ever walked in your sleep and found no explanation for doing so, since you went to bed on an empty stomach and it couldn't have been the perk chops you ate in the Square last Tuesday...
When you can't eat, sleep, walk, talk, or perform any of the daily tasks which were so habitual in the past; when the mere sounding of a certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when...
...left off. Finally they go. You are tired. Your spouse isn't. She feels like talking ... about that new fur coat she needs, most likely. You listen, as usual. At last you are in bed, covers up around your neck, and you are dozing off into a much needed sleep ... The baby cries...
Hypnobioscope and the Subconscious. Not all his predictions have panned out. The inventions which Gernsback likes best are the "osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...
...shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...