sleepyhead
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“The experience made me feel like maybe I wasn’t so bad after all,” Fern Formica, who played a Sleepyhead, said, in 1991.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2018
As Sleepyhead shows, sleep sciences are still in their infancy, and current research is mostly descriptive.
From Nature • Feb. 26, 2018
Thus, his book Sleepyhead offers a welcome departure from most studies on the neuroscience of sleep and sleep disorders: his lived experience proves a valuable way in.
From Nature • Feb. 26, 2018
John Lewis has seen sales of the Sleepyhead pod range, which starts at £110, more than double compared with last year.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2016
Thus spoke the wicked servants, in the hope that the Giant Sleepyhead would kill Wittysplinter.
From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various
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