Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money to the people. But we think he ought not to give all his money to the people and ought to save some for when he is old. It would be very sad for him if he was an old man without any money and had to sleep in the park...
...admission averages, and that the percentage of failures were fewer. It is a well known fact that men who have a steady job or outside activity, such as managerial work, literary competitions, or even national youth movements, do much better on the average than those who merely eat and sleep their way through Harvard...
...Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...
Their nine-man squad averages 6 ft. 5. Centres Willard Schmidt and Joe Fortenberry are 6 ft. 9 and 6 ft. 8 respectively. When the team travels, they sleep on hotel bedroom floors. They have perfected a technique called "dunking," with which they score by jumping up above the basket, dropping the ball into it. On the defense, they prevent opponents from scoring by batting the ball out of the basket...
...talent had quietly turned up in Chicago. Young Templeton was born blind, of Scottish parents, on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. At 2, he played the piano, imitating the notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother sang him to sleep. At 5, he directed a choir of his playmates. When Alec was 12, his father sold his interest in the farm, moved to London, enrolled his son in the Royal Academy. Father Templeton got himself elected to the London County Council but found it unnecessary to spend any money after...