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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall where Ray roomed, and walked in without bothering to be asked. Ray was wearing a green varsity sweater with a white "D" knitted into it. That also got their goat: Cirrotta had played freshman football and was entitled only to class numerals. One of them sneered: "You even sleep in it." "No," said Ray, "I was cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: A Bunch of the Boys | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...orphan at the table. I am the only one here who wasn't brought up as a lawyer." When the lawyers tried to set an hour for the start of the secret meetings, Vishinsky said: "If we meet tomorrow at 3, I think I will have had enough sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Laughter Under the Chandeliers | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...psychologist, amid rumors that it had been set up to analyze the Faculty. At that time the philosophy department was in charge of the strange new science: the thought of being held responsible for the antics of the maniacs they imagined were under care at the Clinic trouble the sleep of the philosophers for many years...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Circling the Square | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...never-waking sleep, than linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriot's Reward | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Into the sea they went that day, every slithering, slimy serpent of them excepting one. "I prefer to coil me great length up and go to sleep," that one told the saint. "I had never a great taste for drowning." "Very good," said Patrick, "then how about coiling yerself in this box here for it is very comfortable." ;' 'Tis not big enough," said the snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pat or the Pleistocene? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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