Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...
Claimed to have been composed in his sleep, a little known self-epitaph of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now on exhibit at Widener Library in a display of manuscripts and marginal notes of this author...
...dominant note of the book is contained in the curious and eye-catching title. It is the story of the awakening of the peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
...Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...