Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains, nerve-control and concentration." Says Frack, the fractious one: "What we like most outside of skating is to go to a vaudeville show so we can laugh once in a while...
Management: No more eloquent commentary on the alertness, competitive mindedness of U. S. rail management exists than the story of how they were caught asleep at the switch by the hard-hitting, aggressive, new transport men who came into bus & airline management, cutting deeply into the railroad's passenger business (which is roughly 15% of their total...
...market, averaged $436.19 gain for every $100 loss), but tipster he was to the public. Hundreds went to Colorado Springs to get advice from the great man. He arranged his invalid's schedule so that he worked early in the morning and late at night, was sound asleep when most people called. Soon he had 25 assistants, and his bedroom turned into a statistic factory. Sometimes he composed tirades against Franklin Roosevelt, which were incorporated in his market letters...
...Dawdling is no sin: young children usually take from 30 to 40 minutes to eat, 20 to 25 minutes to an hour to fall asleep. It is sometimes all right to feed a child to avoid a scene even after he knows how to feed himself...
...island's small oil docks and ammunition dumps were clapped under guard. Veterans of World War I were given guard detail until one fell asleep at his post (oil dock) while smoking a cigaret, which dropped and caused a big grass fire. Veterans also showed a regrettable tendency to detour their sentry beats to nearby bars: the orderly officer, making his rounds one evening, found the ammunition dump completely deserted and reproachfully wrote his name all over the walls before the sentries reappeared...