Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During all the years since the building was constructed, only one man has been locked in when the doors were closed in the evening. Last year a graduate student went to sleep while reading back among the stacks, and did not wake until the night watchman came along on his rounds and aroused him. The watchman used his key to open the door and let the sleeper out. Since the stacks are patrolled all through the night there is only a very slight chance of any one's remaining in the building long after the doors have been closed...
...troublous times were ahead. For the time, tax reduction was the sole major issue; and Congress quarreled over Democratic versus Republican details of the measure. The bonus followed more quietly in tax reduction's wake. And, in the the midst of all, burst Teapot Dome. Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Harding's Cabinet, was cast in the shadow, if not of crime, at least of grave impropriety in dispensing leases of the Naval Oil Reserves. The Senate went into "hysteria"; the scandal drove two members, Denby and Daugherty, from President Coolidge's Cabinet (TIME...
...Next came the Boston police strike, which left easily avoidable death and devastation in its wake-that gave him the Vice Presidency...
...sick of Casey, now. I could kill him sometimes. I have done him so often that it has become part of my physical machine and my mind wanders anywhere while I am doing it. Then I wake up, forget where I am, and am in a hole. I have Casey miss that ball six or seven times, and I have had him miss it only once. It never makes any difference to the crowd...
...teachers must aim higher. Of course we might make some changes in the small traditional colleges, to wake them up. I have often thought we might examine all the students at the end of the sophomore year, and those who proved their ignorance we could present with their A. B. diploma and send home. If one is doing nothing but accumulate college life two years will suffice to accumulate it all. The other students, who had learned something, we might keep on for the four years, and at the end we might give them too their A. B. diplomas...