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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: $10,000 for Sleep | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Japanese, each of medium height, each with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and a nearly bald head, put on their sleeping kimonos in the official residence of the Premier of Japan one dark and snowy night last week, laid their heads upon pillows of hard wood and went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Murderous Mustards | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...short while ago Harvard University for the second time rejected an offer of a German scholarship from Ernst Hanfstaengl, or "Putzy" as the Columbia Spectator prefers to call the Nazi Press Chief, who has become renowned as the musician who soothes the worried Hitler to sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

...Benchly's short on How to Sleep and How to Wake Up, turned out to be funnier than we thought it was going to be, although the ending was rather wet. All in all, the "Uni" has a successful billing for the first half of the week, and we look forward to "The Tale of Two Cities," which follows this program...

Author: By H. M. P. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Angeles, when Tenant Richard Godfrey, 18, took his horse upstairs and stabled it for the night in his apartment, Tenant Mrs. Frances Jebb called police because she could not sleep with the horse "clomping around upstairs." Protested Godfrey: "I've never let Tuffie out of my sight since we left North Platte, Neb. together. The man we rented the apartment from said it would be all right to take Tuffie right upstairs. You see, he's a trick horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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