Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...
...India two months ago, a merchant named Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, believing that he had not slept for two years, offered $10,000 to anyone who would restore his ability to sleep normally (TIME, March 9). In Hungary there is a woman of 80 who says she has been continuously awake since 1911. Such people are either lying or they do not realize that they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that...
...years ago Dr. Siegfried Elias Katz and Psychologist Carney Landis of Manhattan reported to the American Medical Association on an unnamed young man who, believing sleep a waste of time and nothing but a habit, persuaded psychiatrists to give him a no-sleep endurance lest. He was not watched constantly but had to turn a watchman's clock every ten minutes. He dozed off seven times during the ten-day test and his naps totaled about five hours...
...decrepit constitution. His life was despaired of in March 1935, during an attack of bronchitis. From the White House he was moved to the Naval Hospital where he astounded his doctors by remaining alive. On the night of last week's Gridiron dinner he had gone to sleep and, for no particular reason, his tired heart stopped beating...
...Notwithstanding the fact that he was elected by the Democratic Party, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS . . . PERMITTED NEGROES TO COME TO THE WHITE HOUSE BANQUET TABLE AND SLEEP IN THE WHITE HOUSE BEDS. . . THE LITTLE DOLE WHICH HE GAVE TO THE SOUTH WILL NEVER PERMIT HIM AND MRS. ROOSEVELT TO PUT SOCIAL EQUALITY IN THE SOUTH AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE NORTH AND IN PENNSYLVANIA...