Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Militia officers in arm chairs placed in the street behind a barricade of sandbags: "We of the Government are taking great care to keep losses as low as possi- ble. They are now desperate men in the Alcázar fighting for their lives without food, water, or sleep-they'll have to surrender shortly...
...Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a "young, broke and discouraged'' jobseeker sleep on straw beside a warm boiler. To Muncie's Ball, Moose Davis proffered 25 cents for his night's lodging...
...York, to Washington; in July swung through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Back in Chicago, he set up a sketchy national headquarters, bundled his personal staff into a ten-passenger airplane, flew West. In 17 days, during which he averaged three speeches per day and four hours sleep per night, he swept 6,500 miles through 16 States...
...together of roughly a million Nazis at what is called the "Party Congress" in Nürnberg. Around this city of 416.000 souls last week again sprang up the spreading tent towns in which Nazi boys & girls, youths and maidens, fathers and mothers, bachelors and spinsters, grandfathers and grandmothers sleep on straw couches. This year above their& canvas rose a dramatic "Tent of Light"-150 searchlights placed in a circle in such a way that their four-million-watt shafts of light met above it in the sky at a single focal point or imaginary tent pole...
...distinct functions." Newman's proposal amounted to eliminating one of the four vital ingredients evident in the life of the universities during their healthy periods. Unconsciously he was reflecting the condition of the English universities as he knew them before 1850 when they were still suffering from the long sleep of the eighteenth century. His proposition was in reality but a concise description of a disease. A few years later a prominent member of his own University, recognizing the condition as pathological, expressed himself in the following words: "The colleges (of Oxford and Cambridge) were in their origin endowments...