Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black, chill night in Berlin last week foreign correspondents were jounced out of their sleep by the clamorous ringing of their telephones. When each answered, he was startled to hear an official voice from the Foreign Office insist that there was no revolution in Germany, either actual or likely...
...other end of them. I never knew when New Year's came. Down in the locker room when we went off shift everyone said 'Happy New Year.' I didn't go out and celebrate. I went home and went to bed. These days I usually sleep from about two o'clock till noon...
...main fame is based on his brilliant work before and at Dunkirk. As Lord Gort's Chief of Staff-the same job in France as this one in Asia-he carried the entire responsibility for the details of withdrawal. With scarcely any sleep at all, he moved G.H.Q. eight times in 20 days, took the worst news without blinking, seldom referred to maps because he carried a large-scale one around in his head...
...altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion: the sulfa drugs may perform their germicidal miracles by preferentially anesthetizing disease bacteria so that they are easily overpowered by the body's natural defenses.) When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression of the solution restored the glow. But pressure will not restore luminescence blacked...
...principle of the thing is, it seems, not to see into the future but to induce self-hypnosis. A quarter of an hour of self-hypnosis is worth eight hours of sleep from a mental point of view according to the youthful yoga...