Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio and newspaper reporters are the likeliest peacetime users of this midget. Other possible customers: traveling businessmen, detectives, blackmailers. "And students who want to sleep in the classroom," Inventor Camras suggests...
...boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such...
Bilingual. At Fort Benning, Ga., the mystery of strange sounds in the night was finally solved when it was discovered that Officer Candidate George Chew speaks perfect English in the daytime, perfect Chinese in his sleep...
...Right Now." One new case came in, a man who had stepped on a land mine. Although he had been given a full grain of morphine, he was in extreme agony, and he pleaded with the doctors: "Please, can't you put me to sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn...
...hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice could only be found within its bars, that outside was only disorder, strikes, uncertainty, unemployment, and exploitation. . . ." It differed from the Kansas State Penitentiary...