Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings...
...ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping day or night, the President would go without sleep for one whole month. There are probably not less than one-half million of people in China today who are blind in both eyes; probably five million more who are blind in one eye, and at least 15 million who are nearly blind, many of whom will be totally blind within...
Probably the most amusing to watch is the white rabbit owned by a Sophomore in one of the Gold Coast dormitories. He spends his days sleeping in a box in the corner; his nights are occupied in disturbing his owners while they try to sleep. In the evenings he gambols over the green in front of Russell Annex, being guarded by an horde of onlookers; and in the mornings he is just...
...humanely to sleep: 275 horses and mules, 119,560 cats, 30,075 dogs...
Simmons Co. The Simmons Co. (beds) purchased (price unrevealed) the B. F. Huntley Furniture Co. (two factories in Winston-Salem, N. C., lumber factory and mill in South Carolina). Expressing confidence in U. S. prosperity President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons said: ". . . we believe that everybody will have to sleep just as much in 1930 as they...