Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smart and well-disciplined plague of bedbugs has struck the University, it was reported last night. Every Sunday night for the past three weeks certain insects of an undetermined nature have been biting an inhabitant of Hastings Hall during his sleep. Although the exact species is unknown, scientists studying the bites last night stated that they had reason to believe that the attackers were of the bedbug order...
Pinkerton says that the press does not mention all the usual happenings at Harvard, nor all the successes of alumni. Instead the formula for readable papers is the unusual--the one undergraduate that gets into trouble while the other 4,500 sleep. The press does not note Alumni for all their good accomplishments but let anyone of the Alumni fail, and he makes the headlines...
...once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
Miss Inselbuch was the first to realize the danger. Her sleep was broken sometime after 3 a.m., and when she looked up from her bed, she noticed a tall, thin figure standing in the doorway, silhouetted by a hallway light...
Moses has one major flaw. By page 505, the waxy, unctuous prose with which Novelist Asch has Simonized the King James version will leave many an eye glazed, not with sanctity but with sleep...