Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came back to London with a scrawl across it in Edison's writing: "Send him over." In February 1881, Insull sailed; 14 days later he arrived after dark at Menlo Park. Edison began dictating at once, finally stopped at midnight and said "You'd better get some sleep. I'll need you again at six in the morning." Thus began Insull's U. S. career. For a time he bought Edison's clothes, wrote his checks. Ultimately he managed Edison's business affairs. He helped organize Edison Machine Works and later laid...
Disturbances late at night on Mount Auburn Street and in the Yard have not ceased in spite of the pleas of the captains of baseball, track, and crew, who complained that the renditions of "popular" songs by revelers are disturbing the sleep of the athletes who are in strict training for the most important events of the year...
Last February, as student president, Michelet arranged a memorial service for the nine Dartmouth men killed in their sleep by carbon monoxide (TIME, March 5). But while other students were filing to the chapel, he was on his way to Dick Hall's House infirmary with a heavy cold. The cold became pneumonia. Empyema developed, clogging his lungs. In two weeks students marched once more to Rollins Chapel, for two hours filed past the coffin where Bob Michelet lay beneath the Dartmouth seal...
...leader dismissed, with a younger and more hard-boiled man in charge, the Happy Hunting Ground will be open again, with its little black boxes and its fat franchises, just as soon as the public is bored to death with the reforms of a reform administration, and goes to sleep in its turn...
...Assistant U. S. District Attorney John J. Wilson got up to outline the Government's case, the Bishop suddenly lost interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared at the ceiling, leaned his head back on his hands, finally appeared to go to sleep while Attorney Wilson declared that the Bishop had collected $65,300 for campaign purposes from Edwin C. Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. (taken over last year by New York State's superintendent of insurance); that he and his secretary had reported Mr. Jameson's contribution...