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Word: slept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME slipping? Yesterday I called on Subscriber and fellow TIME-fan Dr. A. C. Brown. He slept soundly in his office chair, a copy of your October 1 issue in his hand. Too much politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Only the Freshmen of Cornell were urged to something different. For they were told by their president, Dr. Livingston Farrand, that they ought to sleep more than Freshmen hitherto have slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sleep, Freshman, Sleep | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Jarnegan. To Hollywood, the "bums' paradise," where there is "a pushover on every corner," comes Jack Jarnegan, a crude and noisy dynamo, full of boxcar bombast. Soon he is a director of cinemasterpieces. He confesses that on his arrival in the loud metropolis he slept in a flop house in company with other tramps; now, on the contrary, he has a fine house where there are eleven bedrooms and a Jane in every one. Richard Bennett plays Jarnegan with guttural roars, hob-nails, stubble-beard and a chest expansion. All this is profane and exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...kill him in her agony and sorrow. Instead, she sent him to live with some country people and went on being a governess. Lovers came to her again and she accepted them: Albert, who had loved her long ago; Richard, who thought that she was "too good for him," slept with her friend and committed suicide. Her son grew up to be a sneak-thief; to have him with her she rented furnished rooms and started to give lessons. For one of the girls who attended her classes, Theresa came to possess a deep and sacrificial love; it appeared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chronicle | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...fears that someone might try to take his place were not groundless. Other men soon joined him. They too slept in front of the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Rush! | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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