Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor, sitting in that old room, must occasionally let his eyes wander over the portraits. And eventually they must come to rest in the southwest corner, which is reserved for the four New York Governors who thereafter rose to the Presidency...
...restore. Therefore, he thought, a man should be able to cut his rest periods shorter by relaxing as soon as he has used up his primary energy. Fuller trained himself to take a nap at the first sign of fatigue (Le., when his attention to his work began to wander). These intervals came about every six hours; after a half-hour's nap he was completely refreshed...
Unlike many a war-baby boss, Austin does not worry over absenteeism. His workers wander off at any time to do chores, tend their bees, chickens and strawberry plants. Nor does he worry over profits. Said he: "We aren't exactly doing this to make money. What would we do with it? We're just having some...
...fact, verified by Army authorities, is that Wissenback (who speaks no language but English) proceeded to wander for the next five months in Nazi-occupied territory. He was never picked up or seriously molested, and eventually he made his way back to England...
Some live inside and wander outside for food, while some live outside and forage inside for food. It is a rather difficult problem to determine which ant comes from without and is what you might call an Engineering ant, and which ant comes from within and would be called a Quartermaster ant. Some of our ants appear to be going in circles and others apparently are wandering at random with no thought of destination. Such ant tactics are very confusing and could result in a Quartermaster ant being exterminated by an Engineering poison, or an Engineering ant exterminated...