Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their nerves taut from worry and lack of sleep, a good number of students will resent the ubiquitous exam proctor as he casually walks around the room and stays close to people going out for a cigarette. The reason there is no honor system at Harvard is not because the students are immature or dishonest, but because the College has many men and little social compactness. Another reason is that the complaints have never been very loud...
...bombs, instead of putting them to use. When they decide to bring them out, I'll be willing to fight again. Meanwhile, it's time to go back to work. I'm tired and I want to live with my wife, work in the daytime and sleep nights...
Never Again! Yes, Berillon muttered, by hypnotism he could cure "almost anything." Could he cure a drunkard that way? Replied Berillon: "I treated an alcoholic only once. I put him to sleep and in his trance made him hold up his right hand and swear never again to use it to touch a glass containing alcohol...
...Gunderson thinks that the statewide campaign will cost nearly half a million dollars for DDT alone. But freedom from flies will make livestock fatten faster, increase the milk yield, improve public health. "Besides," he says, "what's a man's Sunday morning sleep worth to him when there's a fly in the room...
...disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...