Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty...
...pedals up and down incessantly, circling lap after lap, mile after mile without leaving the ellipse. It was an international six-day race, for Distance against Time, for Money against Monotony. Tex Rickard, promoter, chewed cigars, watched the customers come and go, talked with his henchmen, went home and slept, came back again to chew, watch, talk...
...tremendous rise in prices during and since the war has severely restricted the jollities which a student's budget formerly permitted; the gallant roysterer, who danced all night and slept all day, has been replaced by a changeling, a quiet fellow, pinched and shabby, who stands in line to get a little extra work, and who saves even on the midnight...
...dead of night a hearse rattled its way along the narrow streets of Rome from St. Peter's to the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Beside the hearse walked a few of the Pope's georgeous guards, a few Vatican officials. All Rome slept. The body of Pope Leo XIII was being removed, in accordance with his expressed will, to its final resting place...
...Hunter, of Australia, reported jointly discovering a remedy for rigid paralysis. Anti-vivisectionists writhed at hearing this discovery was made possible only by long experiment on small animals. The use of ethylene was explained- a new anesthetic discovered in Chicago when white carnations bowed their heads, slept, because this substance had leaked into the greenhouse air from illuminating gas. Administered to humans it produces in 40 seconds a complete anesthesia lasting for four hours, making possible prolonged operations. In Chicago, a certain dog, rendered unconcious daily for several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument...