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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Thomas H. Stearns and Charles E. Zeitlin, S | Title: Beyond the Bell Desk | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Ambulatory Philologist | 5/12/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Harnessing of Two Logics | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

When you are old and grey and full of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Death of a Patriot | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Last week, in a rambling, old-world mansion outside Dublin, old and grey and full of sleep, Maud Gonne died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Death of a Patriot | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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