Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most such cheerful volumes, How to Worry Successfully contains a great deal of helpful advice that is almost certain to drive into a frenzy anyone worried about anything more serious than a bad cold or a ticket for overtime parking. It also contains some practical observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation...
...Nahlin's regular staterooms are on lower decks and likely to be hot, the walnut furniture of the top-deck library was lugged out and walnut bedroom furniture, bought at Southampton, lugged in. After one look at the large walnut bed in which His Majesty was expected to sleep, a trusted aide condemned it as "too formal," sent it back and had an informal little number rushed aboard at the last moment. According to the Nahlin's proud owner, "Britain's Richest Widow" Lady Yule: "She is the most beautiful yacht in the world and the most...
Normal blood pressure for a healthy individual is roughly his age plus 100. It continually varies-lower in sleep and menstruation, higher after meals, baths, in anger, in pregnancy. Prolonged high blood pressure of 180 to 200 or low pressure of 60 to 75 are positive signs of disease somewhere in the system. To most people their blood pressure figure, without explanation, has no more meaning than the count of the white cells in their blood stream, or the specific gravity of their urine. Nonetheless the numbers indicating specific gravity, blood count or blood pressure do fascinate many people...
...Columbus, Ohio, last month Mrs. Leonard Loomis, 21, was about to have a baby. Her obstetrician, Dr. Abe Herbert Kanter, took Mrs. Loomis' left hand, held it palm down over her head while he softly intoned: "You are going to sleep now. You are so tired, so very, very tired. Just relax. Your arms and legs are relaxing. They are so heavy. Just relax, relax. You are so sleepy, so sleepy, so very, very sleepy. . . . When I count three you will be asleep. . . . One, two, three...
...half hours later when Mrs. Loomis awoke from her hypnotic sleep, a strapping 10½-lb. girl was whimpering beside her. The baby had been born after only 15 minutes of final exertion by Mrs. Loomis...