Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time a small group of Harvard students are travelling to Lingnan University in Canton, where they will sleep on mats, cat rice, and absorb a blended education drawn from both Oriental and Occidental sources. The picture is a pleasing one--a Westernized institution of high standing set in the heart of ancient Cantonese culture, where the exchange of knowledge is fostered and developed. The picture lacks only one element, which may easily be supplied by the University authorities. Harvard should grant full credit and recognition to the work done by students in Canton...
...thousand years hence ethnologists delving into college-midderns, will dig out such artifacts of Homo Universitas as the cram. The cram is a dull, boring weapon used to bar sleep from the study den. It is used to pound, stamp, and otherwise insert into the Universitas head enough assorted facts to pass exams...
...feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...
...Japanese of medium height, each with heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head, who went to sleep on wooden pillows in the Premier's Official Residence, one was Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada and the other was his brother-in-law, Colonel Denzo Matsuo...
...clubs he gave her, she qualified for the championship flight in the Minneapolis tournament a year later. After this her father bought her a new set. Patty liked these so much that she took them to her bedroom every night, stacked them up against the wall before going to sleep...