Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty's current set of rules, first submitted for council consideration in November, did relax Administration's strings on organizations' finances. But the Faculty retained as a prerequisite for recognition that would-be clubs show "evidence of financial solvency...
...Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew and community singing. Lum Fong has got it if you are looking for real stuff in Chinese food, while Sallo de Champagne, 135 MacDougal St. in the Village offers comfortable couchs to sit and relax on. It has a truly unique atmosphere, and serves terrific wines and champagnes...
...from the browsing room ("Just what the name implies," says a Settlemayer sign. "Look around . . ."), to the reference room ("Answers questions on anything and everything, from quizzes to theses and back again")-he has installed brilliant lighting and brightly upholstered chairs. He has even had Muzak pumped in to "relax" his readers. Book circulation has more than doubled since Thanksgiving, and, once the "off season" ends, Librarian Settlemayer expects it to treble. He is still not satisfied...
After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père Couturier has made the art of Moderns Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat and Georges Rouault shine clean and fresh in the new mountain church (TIME, June...
...lighter (weight, less than 55 lbs.) than its predecessors, and so small (volume, 1 cu. ft.) that its parts have to be assembled by watchmakers' methods. When the plane is once in the air, the pilot can point it on its compass heading, turn on the autopilot, and relax as far as flying is concerned...