Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to sleep in the futuristic chairs at Lamont yesterday were the exceptions; most of the multitude that wandered around the different "levels" and peered over the balconies was too busy being amazed or baffled even to sit down...
Many French tenants were distressed. Groaned one: "I'd sleep under an umbrella first...
Modern control mechanisms think much better than that. Gathering information from delicate senses (strain gauges, voltmeters, photosensitive tubes), they act upon it more quickly and accurately than human beings can. They never sleep or get sick or drunk or tired. If such mechanisms are properly designed, they make no mistakes...
Goodrich's own view of his wife (he discusses her at length and objectively, in her presence, while she listens meekly) is that she needs a firm hand. He watches over her, keeps an eye on her business and social engagements, sees that she gets enough sleep, discourages overwork. She rarely stops acting (or rehearsing) when she leaves the set. During the shooting of The Snake Pit she practiced her screams so convincingly at home that soon all Hollywood was abuzz with the story that that man Goodrich was beating his wife. To disprove it, Goodrich finally took...
...will naturally expect no declaration of policy [about Edinburgh University] from me at this stage. But I firmly believe that a university must turn out men & women who are fit to live, as well as fit to earn a living . . . After all, we sleep for one third of our time, we work another third-but there is still a third left. Education should prepare one for the whole of one's waking life...