Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fables. Quite different is the elaborate, long-pondered theory of John William Dunne, British soldier, engineer, sportsman and aeronautical inventor.* Nearly 40 years ago John William Dunne began to have dreams which waking experiences later confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought...
...check up on his mind, Mr. Dunne took to writing down as much as he could recall of his dreams as soon as he woke up. With practice at this he found he was able to recall more & more of his dream-stuff. He persuaded friends to try it. A few of them declared that they never had any dreams. But when they tried jotting down what they could remember while still in the half-doze of waking, they were often able to recall a good deal, were usually amazed hours later at what they had scribbled...
...scored, are not unheard of. At Montreal last week, Maroons and Red Wings skated wearily up & down the ice through four such periods of 20 minutes each, without breaking the tie. While the streets outside the Forum emptied and the city grew dark, while spectators alternately dozed and woke with hoarse shouts when it looked as if something might happen, the players went on grimly playing. In the middle of the fifth overtime period a drowsy spectator got hit by the puck. He was revived. Play went on. The period ended scorelessly. Exactly 16½ minutes later, a Detroit second...
...days later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell of the Army Engineers arrived in Florida to begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would...
...Admiralty was woodenly unaware. England was at war with France, Holland and Spain; it was no time to talk about grievances or reforms. When the Admiralty received identical petitions from eleven ships' crews of the Channel Fleet, it did not even acknowledge them. By the time the authorities woke to the fact that trouble was brewing, it was too late. They ordered the Fleet to sea; it stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships, put the most unpopular officers ashore. Followed some delicate negotiations between the Admiralty...