Word: relax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Teacher sits down. Another sharp command. Into their places shoot the children, sit erect, silent, stock still- still and silent as heaving, panting children can sit. The panting and the heaving cease. Silence settles down over the room like a soft rain. Nerves relax. Ebulliency is gone. Repose remains. Then back to lessons again...
...deadly efficiency of the Japanese is, unbeknownst, giving the death-blow to a tradition of comic literature. The bow-legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
...Davis, Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States, when he recently spoke of Ireland as 'having shaken off her long subjection.' "That friends of Ireland through out the world, and particularly in America, may not 'be deceived and may not be tempted to relax their efforts in Ireland's behalf until real freedom is achieved, let us send forth this plain message...
...Poincare, however, this fear is outweighed by the menace of a restored Germany on the French frontier. With her devastated area ever before her. France dare not relax her strangle hold on Germany until she has reduced her to a second rate power--unless and until the U. S. and Great Britain effectively guarantee her security. While the rest of the powers are slowly recognizing that it does not pay to be vindictive, France has throughout seen clearly that she cannot afford, as matters stand, to be anything else. And if I happened to be a Frenchman, I should doubtless...
College students to the contrary, there is much truth in the argument. Yet how is it to be reoonelled with the undoubted fact that many students yearn to get through and relax in an eight-hour day? One explanation of the anomaly might be that it is human nature to feel abused under any circumstances. But a better explanation appears to spring from the emphasis on "sentenced". It is generally true that the undergraduate does not labor hard enough at college. But he will not do otherwise until the idea that any labor on courses comes in the nature...