Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being wounded. He sometimes goes two or three days without food and is constantly exposed to the dampness and cold as to shell fragments and machine-gun bullets. They are the most uncomplaining lot, however, and are very happy to be back where they can get a chance to sleep on something...
...they sent me back along the endless chain of hospitals--this is the 6th--to rest. That is rather a joke, too, the rest part of it, for you no sooner get settled down than you are evacuated. But even so, I've gathered up a lot of sleep and stored it away, and now I'm all ready to go back again--just as soon as they'll let me, which ought to be in a couple of days at the most
Contrary to a recent announcement, the cadets will sleep in wall tents during the three weeks in camp, instead of in the shelter tents used last year at Barre. Larger tents will also be provided for mess accommodations. Assurance that six West Point cadets will be with the Corps for the three-weeks' training in barracks has been received, although their names have not yet been announced...
...Special sleeping cars will be run for members of the University who propose to attend the June Under-Age Camp. The cars will be attached to the regular Montreal train, but will be left off at Burlington. They will leave from the North Station on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, arriving at Burlington at 5.20 A. M. The cars, however, will remain at the station and the occupants will be permitted to sleep until 8 o'clock. Connection may then be made with the Lake Champlain steamer, which leaves Burlington at 9.30 and reaches Plattsburg...
...under any circumstances, yet it can be secured by utilizing less artificial light. According to the proposed idea, everybody would rise one hour earlier, and therefore go to bed an hour earlier, for we do not believe anyone will keep to his accustomed habits if he loses sleep thereby. At the time the change is scheduled to go into effect, the sun will rise almost half an hour sooner than now. The man who gets up at 6.15 therefore, instead of 7.15, can dress himself by daylight. Certainly there will be no wasted electricity here. On the other end, hower...