Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes, including the newest 41-ton trans-Pacific Clipper, will be half again as large as the outdated 12-motor, 100-passenger German DO-X. The Douglas B19, wingspread 210 ft., four-motored to develop 6,000 h. p., will have a 6,000-mile range, will sleep a ten-man crew. Although an experiment in military plane-building, the B-19 is expected greatly to influence peacetime passenger transport trends...
...Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep...
...dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion...
...Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep. The dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said...
...responsibilities first week. High salary and short hours preferred. Have several years of poor sales and office experience, no car but should own one in 10 days under right proposition. If you have good opening call E 1360-J for appointment, after 9 a.m. as I need my sleep. No good references...