Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature. In 1923 Dr. James Taylor Gwathmey of Manhattan...
...mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled he, "I didn't sleep well last night, worryin' about you-all and how there's not much news...
Peons may sleep a midday siesta, but not a midmorning. Believe it or not, we Mexicans have to work for a living just as you Americans do. Unfortunately we have no "relief...
Thence, back to the Tower and to muse awhile in the full moonlight: Was it not Anatole France who said; Be happy. We learn only as we amuse ourselves? So I with my gramaphone to get wise and doze myself to sleep...
...want clear and distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting chance publicly to perpetrate as education delightful dinner-table repartee. . . . To some men the world of fact is only a small place in which to eat, sleep, drink, sexualize and die. To others it is a place primarily for dialectical self-exhibitionism. If one really wants to make ideas simple, clear, and distinct, he need only narrow his sympathies so as not to see the points of view of others...