Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem can be solved; it is not hopeless. Raggedly and slowly, but surely, the country's human and material resources are being mobilized. That is an enormous gain; The Crisis which ended Britain's short, uneasy sleep would not have come if that had been true last year...
...America came out in Boston Sept. 25, 1690, and was slapped down the same day. It was banned by Governor Simon Bradstreet for want of a license, and for an unseemly leer at Louis XIV of France ("If reports be true," gossiped Editor Ben Harris, "[he] used to sleep with the Sons Wife...
...lions' den was not quiet enough, however, to put Daniel to sleep. Church leaders, asking the industry and labor men to think of their problems "from God's viewpoint," were occasionally disturbed by such cries from the floor as "Wipe out the evil of monopolistic capitalism!" The Council's new President Charles P. Taft, bossing his first meeting, had to be firm to keep delegates on the subject...
...Journal of Comparative Psychology, Drs. J. C. R. Licklider and M. E. Bunch describe a revealing experiment on rats (which are very like people in many ways). The problem was to find out how rats react to losing sleep. Rats ordinarily sleep 12 to 15 hours a day. When really sleepy, they will bed down on anything. Bright lights and loud noises do not stop them from trying...
Possible moral for nightclub proprietors and bosses who work the help after hours: lack of sleep is bad for the victim's health, bad for his disposition, but does not necessarily impair his natural intelligence...