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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vets have learned to be tolerant, to a large extent, by this time and therefore will not lose many nights' sleep over this momentous event but we believe it fitting to challenge their unfairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Last week after a sound night's sleep Ludwig Schmidt walked firmly to the gallows in Rabaul, was hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: Old Ludwig | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Hither where thou art wont to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Against One | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

After 21 hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long Ago & Far Away | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...most complete ever drafted. In general the standardized supership will resemble the famed Douglas DC2 and the new DST, but it will be nearly twice the former's size, with 140-ft. wingspread, 95-ft. length, 25-ton weight, four motors. Able to seat 40 passengers or sleep 20, it will have a top speed of 230 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 210 at 75% horsepower, will be able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from New York to New Orleans non-stop in less than five. For safety, it will be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Standardized Supership | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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