Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia (they were working on "educational-economics" at famed Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural hole in the side of a barren hill we were awakened at dawn by the fixed stares of about a dozen wild horses peering intently at us over the top. . . . We weren't in trim. We never keep in trim. We eat all the wrong things...
...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...
...Arctic explorations often ate nothing but meat, last week completed in Manhattan a year's intensive meat-eating (no vegetables). Physicians of the Russell Sage Institute will report their findings in six months. Said Explorer Stefansson: "I feel perfectly fit, am wide awake, and am more aggressive. . . . I slept well and developed lots of brand new ideas. You know, I deal in ideas now?I have passed the stage where I have to carry them out." Explorer Stefansson...
...Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...
President Little can lay no claim of merit in anything connected with Michigan's Athletic Plant. One man at Michigan has eaten, breathed, lived and slept Michigan's Athletic Plant for more than a quarter of a century-Fielding H. Yost. To Yost is all credit due. Michigan's Athletic Plant is a living memorial to the athletic and business genius of Fielding H. Yost-long before Little graduated from Harvard College Fielding H. Yost was dreaming, planning and working out Michigan University's present Athletic Plant. It is not finished yet, but every...