Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad* (which Germans began working on in 1888, left four-sevenths completed in 1914) was intended to make the Kaiser's dream come true. The mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were...
This electrical interchange, always in delicate balance, is, he believes, the energy system called life. Over this mystery, energetic Surgon Crile has brooded since he was an intern in 1887. "It bothered me so much it kept me awake at night," he said. "And on a sleepless night last week it all came to me. It was all very simple...
This year it is Harvard that is green and the Dartmouth attack red-hot; and the about-face entirely justifies Jaakko Mikkola's recent sleepless nights. The Crimson's upset at Hanover last spring demonstrated the superiority of an experienced Senior squad over even talented novices; but Saturday afternoon those Seniors will be in the grandstand, and the Comanche amateurs of last season will be running rings around Soldiers Field track...
...Indian part, he remarked: "I don't know if I can sustain the emotion." Cook Book included Joe's most colossal gadget - the Fuller Construction Company Symphony Orchestra - and carried the crackpot through vaudeville and his great .Broadway days to his famed, screwily furnished home, Sleepless Hollow, at Lake Hopatcong...
Four correspondents and a cameraman -weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed...