Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 105 Men's Social Service Centers in the U.S., where the army starts its salvageable wrecks on the road back. Manhattan's center is a seven-story warehouse building near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in dormitories, earn $1 pocket money after the first week, $2 after the second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with...
...Fair Deal: It would add $20 billion to the U.S. budget. "The Government would tell everyone when to work, what to do and when to sleep . . . It would lead to totalitarianism and a labor-socialist Government...
...this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever again...
...Port Moresby, bewildered by their inability to make a happy marriage in all oppressive world, drop their martinis and set off to North Africa with an infantile friend named Tunner whose function is to annoy both protagonists and sleep with harassed, ambivalent...
...good many Faculty members will lose sleep between the third and sixth of February. The third is the last day of the final examination period, and, according to a preliminary announcement handed to the Faculty last week, all "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9" courses will hold examinations on that last day. At least five of these courses are large ones, involving from 100 to 200 bluebooks, each crammed with essay answers...