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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although dubbed a "dresser" by many reviewers, Streit has anything but sleep appearance. Tall, sandy-haired with penetrating blue eyes, he has a missionary's seal and a press agent's mastery of organization. From a cavernous briefcase he distributes reprints of the first chapter of his volume and copies 0 of the "Union Now Bulletin," a monthly publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clarence Streit, Author of "Union Now," Explains His Proposal for a Federation of the Democracies | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...White House, the diplomatic corps will be received before Their Majesties lunch privately with the Roosevelts. After lunch will follow Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay's garden party at the British Embassy; that night, a state dinner and reception at the White House, where Their Majesties will sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Royal Route | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...fine, springy day in 1850 a gentleman named James Liddy, of Watertown, N. Y., went to a county fair in his surrey. It was a lousy fair and Mr. Liddy curled himself up on the seat of his surrey and went to sleep. When he awoke he felt remarkably refreshed, and he was smitten with an idea. He went home and forthwith invented the first bedsprings known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Sharpe & Dohme (drugs), the ballet scenario tells of a scientist who tries to synthesize radioactive benzene from acetylene with the aid of an atom-smasher. Something goes wrong; "there is a series of blinding flashes and he staggers back." After another failure, he sits down, sinks into discouraged sleep, dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: CHEMICAL BALLET | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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