Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
Steinbeck's paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...
...eight hours sleep . . . don't study in bed or in overstuffed furniture, or see a doctor if you do . . . see a supervisor if you have to study more than 36 hours a week . . . make careful notes, and learn how to annotate lectures, the pamphlet advised. Warning against accumulated fatigue from midnight study, the booklet advised an afternoon and an evening off each week, regular exercise, and systematic study as an alternative to "exam period blues...
...undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May, who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give milk, oxen for drawing loads...
...season did best with musicals (Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Best Foot Forward, Sons o' Fun) and with revivals (Macbeth, Porgy and Bess, Candida). Thoroughly revived also, after a long, troubled sleep, was vaudeville...