Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room with her. and the two littlest boys in the same bed. But if Mme Toussaint had only known, she need not have worried...
...floor for the 'Old Guard' delegation, let them sit on the platform." The debate that then began was broken off for supper, was resumed and continued bitterly until 2 a. m. When the meeting broke up the issue was still undecided. After the delegates had slept on it, they were no nearer agreement. Someone struck up the Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists...
...next six days the mock session went on continuously. Alliance members slept in their chairs or on the floor. The number of demonstrators increased to 250 and the "Assembly" appointed two "sergeants-at-arms" to keep the children from romping too noisily around the Speaker's desk during speeches. A delegation had a friendly interview with Governor Hoffman, demanded the immediate reconvening of the Legislature. The Governor asked the Legislature to do so. The Assembly leaders agreed, then lost their nerve. Instead, a handful of Assemblymen and Senators gathered informally at Newark for a club conference...
...India two months ago, a merchant named Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, believing that he had not slept for two years, offered $10,000 to anyone who would restore his ability to sleep normally (TIME, March 9). In Hungary there is a woman of 80 who says she has been continuously awake since 1911. Such people are either lying or they do not realize that they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that...
...Director Wilhelm Berliner loved a sense of power above personal comfort. Since the War he never occupied a permanent apartment. Known and respected in every chancellery in Europe, he spent about 300 nights a year on trains. He never took a sleeping car, and intimates insisted that he never slept at all. He would lock himself in a compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with...