Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Herald Tribune said: "There were tired lines about her face." Reported the Times: "There were no lines of fatigue." Miss Earhart announced that her next program would be: "Sleep, sleep and more sleep...
Jack: Mommy, poppy wants to go to sleep...
Dolly: It's nice to sleep with you on the phone...
...readers, and not many critics, last year waded through a huge post-War German novel called The Sleep-Walkers. In Germany where it was widely read, its author, Hermann Broch, was known respectfully as a onetime businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...
...rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately came down with malaria. His fellow-planters thought he was awful; ragged him for a while, then let him severely alone...