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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being in continuous hurry and dash: at 3 o'clock Monday morning she will leave Boston after 37 shows in 40days. "And then a five day rest,--think goodness!" Miss Henie sighed, and dimpled. She expected to spend most of this time in the arms of Morpheus--god of sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I Love Them All!" Says Sonja Henie of Harvard Men, Turning One Crimson With a Kiss to Prove She Meant It | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their airport cribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cheap Trip | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...they were a unique boon to researchers. Although they shared a common circulatory system, they had separate hearts whose rhythms did not coincide, separate stomachs, separate nervous systems. From the fact that they often slept at different times Soviet scientists evolved further proof of Pavlov's theory of sleep: that it is initiated not by poisons in the blood stream but by the nervous system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...means of monetary subscriptions is short-sighted and unintelligent. I believe that the money to be raised should be used to help a mass of refugees to gain security in term of daily needs. To find means of getting out of Germany, to find a place to eat and sleep are their primary requisites. Higher education is at present a luxury for them...

Author: By Julian Levine, | Title: THE MAIL | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

...suggest that a series of evening lectures be given by a capable man who is anxious to do the work. In these lectures he will discuss the effects of sleep or exercise on study methods of learning words for a language, effects of room ventilation on efficiency, and effects of street noise and music on concentration. He will discuss the relative merits of learning different subjects by sight, sound, or touch. He will tell you what he can about the psychology of learning. Yours truly, F. B. Riggs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

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