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Word: sleeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very few of the 200 Freshmen who will sleep in the gym tonight will be there the full two and a half weeks estimated as the length of time needed to find regular College accommodations for the surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Squeeze Puts 200 in Gym | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists not to sleep on their glory, and take heed from this lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...WORD OREMUS (LET Us PRAY) : "A useful sort of alarm clock ... to wake us up at various points . . . when our attention was in danger of going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religious Dance | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Sleep & Steak. If Notre Dame were starting the season against Spearfish Normal, Leahy would probably predict victory for Spearfish. But for once, this coachly gloom seemed to have some slight justification. Notre Dame's 1947 All-America Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Notre Dame players had returned to South Bend from their summer vacations looking bronzed and rugged. They had kept in shape as farmhands, icemen, truck drivers and lifeguards. Now they were back on a Leahy diet of football, sleep and twice-a-week steaks. Coming out of each scrimmage huddle the players yelled: "Beat the Boilermakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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