Word: relaxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultimate secret to perfect performance in athletics." Cox stated, "is the relaxation of muscles not used. All the top-notch runners, you will notice, are perfectly relaxed through the shoulders when running. Good form is essential to the runner. And there are times in the continued use of a limb when certain muscles in that limb should be relaxed: the muscles of the lower leg for instance need be contracted only half the time. Fellows that don't relax muscles not in use tie up easily...
Laboratory work often takes less constant concentration than does steady reading and intelligible note-taking. For this reason, it is more suited for night work for a man hard pressed for time than are many non-scientific courses. Obviously a man cannot "relax in the lab" every evening instead of getting his usual eight hours, but at least the physical movement entailed will help to keep his mind alert and on the job at hand. When these matters are taken into account, it might be considered more pertinent to close the libraries in the evenings than the various laboratories...
...advance sale of tickets indicates that the newly decorated Louis XIV room at the Somerset will be thronged by many Harvards and Dartmouths choosing this occasion to relax...
...drive into a frenzy anyone worried about anything more serious than a bad cold or a ticket for overtime parking. It also contains some practical observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block purposeful action, how to recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised...
...month Mrs. Leonard Loomis, 21, was about to have a baby. Her obstetrician, Dr. Abe Herbert Kanter, took Mrs. Loomis' left hand, held it palm down over her head while he softly intoned: "You are going to sleep now. You are so tired, so very, very tired. Just relax. Your arms and legs are relaxing. They are so heavy. Just relax, relax. You are so sleepy, so sleepy, so very, very sleepy. . . . When I count three you will be asleep. . . . One, two, three...