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Word: relax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he can't fish to relax, Ted plays with his daughter, ties trout flies, or putters with his collection of cameras. He is generally in bed by 11 p.m. and up at 7:30 for a huge breakfast. Loudly congenial in the clubhouse or when on the road with the club, he spends all the time he can with his family, with friends who are not ballplayers, and alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Competitive Instinct | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Detroit's Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra actually goes back some 20 years. Early in its history the late motor magnate William S. Knudsen, who liked to relax with his Scandinavian friends, gave them a bass viol. The orchestra had no musician to play it, but that was fixed in a hurry. Violinist Chris Marck was tapped because he had a car large enough to carry a bass viol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On to Scandinavia | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Blue Danube, Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Storming into the Sun | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...academic life of the College. For commuters miss much of the association with fellow students and teachers, many of the activities that are part of outside-the-classroom education. The University has so far provided a part solution with the Commuter Center in Dudley Hall. There non-residents can relax, eat together, and form teams and organizations. The Center and its officials are doing as good a job as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Come by Day | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Last week the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene announced that it had developed a gentler way of bringing on the coma which seems to relax sufferers from manic-depressive states. The treatment: intravenous injections of ether.t The ether solution is dripped slowly into the veins (in a technique similar to that used in blood transfusions) for 2½ to 3 hours. The treatment is repeated every day, for ten days to a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anesthetizing the Devil | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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