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Word: slept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Might rise from where they slept and go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precis Grotesques* | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...slept with 97 men. (Page 15, column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

...camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

...well known that sleeping makes one not thin but fat. Men, while they do not grow as fat as women from oversleeping, do put on weight. Harvard men undoubtedly would, if they slept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLEEP MAKES NO ONE THIN OR TALL SAYS PARMENTER | 3/11/1925 | See Source »

...east, after the vessel, God's anger climbed in the likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah-- | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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