Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even with an accelerated program you had to take off at least one night a week. Even the Dean's Office admitted that. But then they claimed you could get eight hours' sleep every night, too. Dean's Office or no Dean's Office, this was Vag's night off, and he didn't know what to do about it. All the girls he'd called were spending the evening either learning about the innards of automobiles for a motor transport course, or boning up on incendiary bombs and blackouts for the A.R.P. exam. He'd seen the movie...
...crowded, and the relaxation of an Old-Fashioned before a leisurely dinner. He was more subject to head colds, had more trouble throwing them off. But he still kept his weight down to 186, could still cast off his burdens and get a night's sound sleep; he could still laugh. If he could get away to Warm Springs for a brief rest after a winter's overwork, he would rebound quickly...
...this week came Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, who commanded the Allied Fleet in the far Pacific until mid-February. Healthy but worn after a bout of food poisoning, 64-year-old Admiral Hart headed for Washington, then for his farm at Sharon, Conn, "to get a little sleep." He said that he was not really sick; he was just very tired when he asked to be relieved of his command...
Where the slim wahine (Hawaiian women) once strolled along the beach at Waikiki, barbed wire is looped in crazy, glistening coils. Soldiers with naked bayonets patrol the docks. Parks and schoolyards are scarred with fresh-dug trenches. Howitzers hide in the cane fields. Men sleep by their guns on the beach and in caves hollowed out of the mountains...
...efficiency of Cambridge A.R.P. officials and wardens, but will in a large way measure the temper of students in the University. Many are taking the whole affair as a sort of joke, something which is being done to soothe the fears of local matrons in order that they may sleep more securely. Students at Oxford, too, were amused by the blackout preparations made by their own colleges, until German demolition bombs aimed at a nearby factory nearly blew their heavy stone buildings to bits. The indifference of certain Harvard men towards tonight's trial is remindful...