Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where towheaded Joe Smith had his first vision in 1820. Between sessions they could stroll down the lane to a low. white frame farmhouse. Like ten thousand other farm houses in the U. S. it had a sign TOURISTS. Its distinction is that there for $1 a tourist may sleep in the very bedroom where, according to the sober belief of 750.000 respectable people, an angel of God first appeared to a divinely chosen prophet...
...Full-bearded Candidate Arlon B. ("Cyclone") Davis, son of the late, famed Populist Leader Cyclone Davis, who campaigned in an Uncle Sam suit of red-&-white striped pants, blue jacket, with a tall beaver bonnet, and told Texans he would "eat earthworms, drink branch water, and sleep on Johnson grass hay" to get Lee O'Daniel out of office...
...Francis Friday Griffiths, chief of scientific investigations for the Oregon State Game Commission, last week announced success of a twilight sleep technique for steelheads. The fish are taken from the traps, dunked in a solution of two parts of ether to 100 parts of water. Inert after a minute or two, they are easily stripped with practically no loss of eggs or milt. Then they are returned to their normal water, are soon as sprightly as ever. Hatchery superintendents believe that ether anesthesia will enable them to work with smaller crews next spring...
...home was any longer private. Politicians, newshawks, newshens, photographers, friends came & went. Little Mrs. Willkie, far from being overcome, quickly adjusted herself to the business of a Presidential nominee's wife, announced that she was going along on campaign trips to see that Wendell got enough food and sleep...
...refugees-and a stink which immediately wafted through the Manhattan press. While most of them went quietly on their way, a handful of the returning warriors growled that they had been shamefully treated: they were fed "slops" from a rolling army field kitchen on the main deck, had to sleep in the ship's suffocating hold...