Word: relax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused an upheaval at West Point. Divergent views and opinions from all parts of our country were expressed and strongly supported by members of the Corps. The intense feeling aroused by John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long...
...almost too good to be true-so good that we must not relax our vigilance...
Complacently the honest men smirked, but they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme...
...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...
...remarkably by their unity of origin. The hearthfires of the New England hills and the sparkling lights of Broadway will next week both shine upon the men who are now leaving Harvard. The warm glow of family affection and the brighter sparkle of old friendship will help them to relax from the pressure of December hour examinations and to reawake the peculiar joy in a community of human experience which for nearly twenty centuries has been known as the Christmas spirit...