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Word: relaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worries about people who worry. Dr. Rathbone, a stocky, cheerful little woman who rowed four years on the Wellesley crew and got three degrees in physiology, decided a few years ago that one of the chief troubles with modern men & women is that they do not know how to relax. So, at Columbia University's Teachers College, she started a relaxing clinic. Last week, announcing that in the spring she would give a course to teach people how to teach people how to relax, Dr. Rathbone reported some of her observations on what makes people tense, and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with resplendently uniformed officers and smartly turned-out women. Caviar, juicy steaks, pastries oozing with whipped cream-all verboten in many a war-nervous area-can be ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents, Relax! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...people, to be voted on November 7 as an amendment to the State Constitution. To put it on the ballot, he needed 10% of the voters in the State. He got them: 241,288 valid signatures. By the same process he added a second proposed amendment which would relax the present law so that the process of amending the constitution would not be so laborious in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Bogeyman | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

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