Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone were the days when people paid $15 a night to sleep on floors, when hackies made $300 a week. $30-a-day hotel rooms were going for $8. Merchants were marking down such items as $300 watches to $165, and case lots of Old Crow from $83.88 to $75.49. In eleven days of horseplay at Hialeah, only $9,500,000 was bet, a $2,600,000 drop compared with the same period last year. Receipts were off, too, at the dog tracks...
Before the war, Johnny Littler was a China coaster, sailing offshore and threading the tricky passages of the Yangtze. Through the war, he was one of the Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I took the squadron through the Smalls" (reefs at the entrance to Bristol Channel). With Littler as navigator, Canada's first cruiser, the Uganda, steamed 80,000 miles and never missed a rendezvous. Littler gave radar much of the credit, called it the most valuable...
...sensational ending to a contest that had at one time threatened to rock the three-quarters capacity crowd to sleep...
...year old graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College died peacefully in his sleep. He suffered a heart aliment. Present with Lamont were his wife and two of their children, cordless Lamont '24 and Mrs. C. C. Cunningham...
...From sleep, not cat, intestines; the name came from early dancing masters' fiddles called kits, their strings kitgut; prissy etymologists "corrected" it to catgut...