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If a drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Awakening | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

As long as a man can easily keep his internal body temperature at 98.6° he is comfortable. In illness he can develop a "low" temperature of 102° and suffer no appreciable harm. A prolonged ''high'' temperature of 105° is usually fatal. External temperature of 104° produces heat strokes if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Times | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

His drowsy mind (for not of this world is the Vagabond) toyed with the fantasy of peaceful fields, of mountain lakes, disturbed only by the ripple of leaping fish, of shaded paths, of ferns bejewelled with dew at midday. He had often sat on warm rocks after sundown in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks crooked stiffly back, their reflexes weakened. Most lapsed into partial, some into complete coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleep Scourge | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

In Sharon Heights, Mass, at 4:15 one morning last week lights came on, heads popped from windows as the New York, New Haven & Hartford freight train OB 4 chuffed by with a load of onions for the Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beldame | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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