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Word: loosening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council did congratulate the Smoker Election Committee for conducting a vote which had more Freshmen casting ballots than Yard elections have seen in a long time--a vote which probably gave the class as good a chance to loosen up and get to know each other (which is, despite Harvard's high academic plane, the function of the smoker which the committee is to arrange) as they have had since entering Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defends Kimball | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

Seeking to loosen the local housing situation, the American Veterans Committee last night renewed its campaign of this spring to obtain listings of available living quarters for married students now out in the cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A V C Initiates New Drive for Local Housing | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Immediate objective of the Choir was to lend Yuletide atmosphere to an impending House Christmas play. While rehearsing the traditional hymns and narrative songs, including "White Christmas," the Dunces began to loosen up and let go, and soon found themselves at various Dunster and other House dances...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Dunster's Dunces Sing Almost Anything for Diners, Dancers, Barflys, Coeds, Frappes | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...corduroy slacks, and she had her game under control. She cinched the championship on the 32nd green. As she went into a victory jig, a bystander asked her the inevitable question about the secret of her success and got a far-from-inevitable answer. Cracked the Babe: "I just loosen my girdle and let the ball have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Babe in Britain | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...exciting start with some suspenseful shots of a dazed derelict (Joan Crawford) wandering the streets of a great city at dawn, in search of a man named David. When she collapses, Miss Crawford is taken to a psychopathic ward. By the time the psychiatrist's drugs loosen her locked tongue enough to tell her story, Joan's desperate beauty and her fine, florid movie personality have aroused an intensity of interest which only a top grade picture could satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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