Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, no dormitory imposes a schedule of living on its residents. Some girls sleep all day, study or cavort all night; some hew to the standard pattern of classes and studying all day, sleeping during the night; others are thoroughly unroutinized...
Jakobson's assiduous studies of philology show his most intense zeal. Throughout his life he has worked excessively, both in residence at universities and on vacations. When he was wrapped up in a problem during his youthful days in Prague, he would frequently work 36 hours without sleep...
...short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because my country, its system, its liberties, are safe...
When you are old and grey and full of sleep...
Last week, in a rambling, old-world mansion outside Dublin, old and grey and full of sleep, Maud Gonne died...