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Word: sleeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...effect that kind of talk had on my family." Lie has iron nerves, can go to bed at the end of a troubled day with a child's placidity and (reports a friend) the pragmatic exclamation: "I have done all I can-now I might as well sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Immigrant to What? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Lolli's hangover treatment usually begins with sedatives, vitamins, a warm bath (to quiet the patient and help him sleep). The chief ingredient is psychotherapy, which starts almost at once, while the patient is most susceptible. First step: to relieve him of certain common misconceptions about his condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Signposts to Alcoholism | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...remember our irregular meals, irregular hours and times of sleep, and constant climatic changes that at best are not conducive to good health. Remember that we take a rigid physical exam every six months and on the day we fail to pass, we're thru. Remember that TWA has no pension plan whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Progress Report, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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