Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture." "One morning, though, I got up to watch them, and ever since I've been helping them loosen the plaster on the ceilings...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...spectacle of the patrician turned for the moment into the beggar will be democratically moving, and should loosen many wallets. When the Seniors have removed themselves from the steps of Widener and have spread their traditional sheet to receive what manna may fall, all Freshmen, one hopes, will remember the honor of their class and rise to the spirit of the day with many clinking shekels. "And cursed be he who first cries 'Hold, enough...
...Buzz is in fine shape. His arm still needs attention and for this reason he will stay for a few days with his uncle in West Newton. We shall start massages to loosen up the muscles in his arm and he will be all right in a short time. However, I doubt very much whether he will be able to play any more hockey this year, though he should be in trim for football in the fall...
...matters of fact, mere question and answer, and more upon matters of opinion, a method followed for an example in the Economics department. Since so large a proportion of the undergraduate body is affected by the tutorial system, verbal reports to tutors instead of the frequent written reports might loosen a tongue...