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Word: sleeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a farmer, a soldier in Russia's wars, killing many people. He had gone to the monastery to be purified but had found too much comfort (two meals per day, four hours of sleep, eight hours of prayer or meditation, the rest work). So he had climbed the mountain to be alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Sleep found to be on a level with the body's vegetative reflex functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...name of a prize-winning Holstein cow now deceased, which once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised from a sleep seemingly as sound as the bovine Louisa's and given performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luisa Miller | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled down and went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard College". So it looks as if our country's future Harvard Engineers are going to be just out-of-luck and have to suffer by being separated from their bosom companions and pals, the true collegians. Well, boys, just so long as you have a place to sleep what do you care? From the Public Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

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