The Archive · 1940

Nine Hours Sleep

Berlin, Oct. 24

Constant yawning in the press conferences has become a matter of course and on discussing the matter we discovered that we are all tired most of the time and that an astonishing amount of time is being lost just in sleeping. Whereas seven hours was formerly ample, we are now sleeping eight and even nine hours and still feeling tired. Applying our scientific minds to the phenomenon, we came to the conclusion that it is the food, or rather lack of it.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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