Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report reads, "It is perhaps generally considered that residence is a virtue. Actually, it is not such, but a necessity. Students from California, Florida, or Salt Lake City simply cannot commute whether they wish to or not ... The question of which is preferable, to live in residence or sleep at home, is a relative matter which will vary with the individual...
...America team. Against L.S.U., Nick played 55 minutes, took a terrific physical beating. But he could do little to prevent the Wildcats' 45-7 rout by the Southern team that was only a six-point pre-game favorite. Going home that night in the plane, Nick could not sleep as his teammates did. Through his bruised lips, he kept muttering: "I'm no good. I'm no good...
...thing, Pfizer men say, little pigs are sound sleepers. When one is really asleep, it can be rolled around or bounced on the floor without waking up. It will even sleep through meal periods and die of malnutrition. About the only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...
...morning of Armistice Day, 1951, while workingmen and housewives gratefully caught up on their sleep, a group of students rolled their equipment into the busy, noisy West End section of Boston and began shooting a documentary...
...more they surveyed, the more beautiful it looked. Ziegler borrowed money from friends and relatives, dubbed his enterprise the Bonanza Oil Co., in five years leased some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there...