Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocktail, it's only to develop his biceps. At one o'clock the waitresses make the rounds collecting the empty glasses and bottles and Red makes the rounds collecting coat collars which he assists down the stairs. and thus the Stag Club closes up for the night, to sleep all through the day until the drinking members of Harvard and Cambridge come up again for their nightcap...
...Caves and Huts. In Nationalist China there are now about 650 base and front hospitals, many of them in caves and peasant huts, where patients sleep on k'angs (brick ledges). Chungking now contains the National Shanghai Medical College and six first-aid stations built by the American Bureau...
...employed 25,000 men regularly since last September; in one peak week 30,000 were at work. Rooming houses and small hotels had waiting lists twice as big as their capacities. Some of them were turning over their rooms three times a day, renting them for eight hours of sleep...
...flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold for $15 an acre began selling for $15 a front foot...
Going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep and biff got married and bam had children and oof got fired...