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Word: relaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women of the Opposition hesitated, gradually wrestled down their party loyalty, got up and joined the parade. Soon nearly every woman's tongue in the entire Sejm was lashing a Government bill introduced to relax the ten-year-old Polish law which forbids liquor sales between Saturday midnight and Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Dry Tongues | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Smiling faces (the only ones Mr. Knickerbocker saw in Rucsia) all along the Red Riviera (on the Black Sea), the only place where Bolsheviks relax. . . . Silk stockings. . . . Silk dresses. . . . Nude mixed bathing. . . . The only jazz heard in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Knickerbocker Reviewed | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...three most important essentials for a man who wants to become a great swimmer are the ability to relax in the water, coordination, and an indefinable winning spark," declared H. S. Ulen head coach of swimming, in an interview yesterday afternoon at the pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building. Ulen came to Harvard after having reached at Syracuse where he taught Cameron, 440-yard intercollegiate backstroke champion and Wohl, 150-yard backstroke record holder. While under Ulen's tutelage. Syracuse twice captured second place in the intercollegiate swimming league comprised of 19 colleges including Dartmouth. Princeton, and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Ability to Relax, Coordination, and Winning Spark Points of a Great Swimmer", Says Ulen--Inexperience an Obstacle | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

...year-old president stood grimly at salute while infantry marched (not goosestepping) and cavalry, artillery clattered past for two solid hours. Up & down, up & down went the old Feldmarschal's arm, returning salutes. Not for an instant, though his weak arches ached painfully, did he relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Without Goose-Stepping | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...four, and flourishing on synthetic foodstuffs. Children will be laboratory-made by ectogenetic methods, leaving governments free to design their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Edward to George & Mary* | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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