Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible to give an adequate idea of the Editors' conclusions on all New Deal aspects, but a few very interesting observations really deserve to be mentioned. One of these highly significant items is the question of the national debt. Hot-headed conservatives who cannot sleep over the "preposterous" and "dangerous" debt of the United States should find a mild form of Ovaltine in the fact that our per capita debt is considerably less than half that of the British. Another illuminating observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration...
...possessed also a physical advantage when he sat down with other conferees in the office of Governor Murphy's brother George, a judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court. Frank Murphy is a red-headed dynamo, but he had not had a full night's sleep for five weeks. Husky Vice President Knudsen, according to one of his best friends, had "aged ten years in the past month." Strike Leader Homer Martin was worn to a frazzle, and C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman, third Labor representative, had just come from arguing the injunction suit before...
...This thing is all right with God. I know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They don't actually live as man and wife. Why, she's still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. I wouldn't put my soul in danger of hell fire to bust up the marriage of a couple of young 'uns that love each other...
...diminishing doses of the drug to which the patient has been addicted. When Dr. Kolb tapers off a patient, he does so rapidly. "Cold turkey" produces better results. By this method, the patient is suddenly and completely deprived of drugs. He becomes irritable and restless. He cannot sleep. He sneezes and sweats, suffers diarrhea. He may collapse. Most of these "abstinence phenomena" disappear in three days. As. they wane, the patient gets sedative drugs (other than opiates), soothing baths and electric lamp treatments. In two weeks for the most responsive addicts, two months for the most refractory, the patients...
Advised Psychologist Carroll Cornelius Pratt of Harvard: "The crammer should be sure that he goes to sleep immediately on putting down his books; an excursion to the restaurant with a newspaper might prove to be a fatal interruption in the cramming process. . . . He should take care that there are no violent changes in his conduct or thoughts...