Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press he described the reading habits of Presidents he had known: McKinley "let Mark Hanna do most of his reading"; Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering papers; Roosevelt II "collects old English and French books. He shares my love...
...minutes after he swallowed the poison the solitary man wrote: "Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. God bless Jeanette and Willie and Martin...
...approximately one million years human beings have lived in a physiological rhythm determined by day and night-that is, a rhythm of about 24 hours. So ingrained is this habit that a daily temperature cycle occurs, body heat being lowest (among people who normally sleep at night) in the early morning, highest in the early afternoon. Some time ago Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago determined to find out whether the human mechanism could break away from this ages-old habit, adapt itself to a cycle of different length...
Some physiologists believe that sleep is the result of chemical changes in the blood. Professor Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky who has Irina & Galina in charge and reported on her to the Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...
...Warm air for sinuses is what Dr. William Walter Wasson of Denver advises if the sinuses are chronically diseased. He has patients sleep in rooms "well ventilated with warm air of the proper humidity...