Word: slumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring's coming to the Arctic may this year bring the biggest naval battle of the war. For centuries royal Trondheim, proud that it owned Norway's No. 1 cathedral, lived slumbrously and peacefully in its white wooden houses. Today its ancient slumber is gone: a Nazi nightmare has taken over...
After six years of slumber Canada's opposition party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...
when "he was interrupted by a piercing shriek from Shelley." The author of Rise like lions after slumber grasped "his ruffled head between desperate hands" and staggered from the room. "Pacified with a douche of cold water and a whiff of ether," he explained that he had been staring at Mary, suddenly remembered a story about a woman who "had eyes instead of nipples, which taking hold of his mind horrified...
Rise like Lions after slumber...
Last week news of a remarkable invention came out of Seattle. The invention: an air-conditioned bed, adjustable for godlike slumber in winter as well as in summer...