Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relax sanctions now, would involve an admission of failure of the League which would reflect badly on the moral authority of Great Britain. The average Englishman realizes this, but it is hard for him also to realize that it is partly the fault of a Government which allowed tons of poison gas to be shipped to Italian armies through the Suez Canal and permitted British Oil companies to sell their products as fuel for Mussolini's airplanes and tanks. They have learned the bitter lesson that sanctions are useless and futile, unless they are carried through to their logical conclusions...
...serious channel of her thought was plain to see. Her theme, Woman v. Man, was well-worn but full of unplumbed depths, strange eddies, many a pleasantly gurgling shallow. Masculine passengers at times hung on to their hats and gripped the gunwale, never felt easy enough to relax, but at the end gave a sigh of thanks for an instructive journey...
...first time in three years, the Crimson squad did not relax during the whole game but held the puck so tenaciously that the carefully planned Tiger defense broke down in desperation after the first period. The team work has improved steadily during the last month and was at a peak Saturday night as short passes constantly eluded the Tiger defense and six of the goals were on assists...
Rhizotomy. High blood pressure may be due to hardened or tense arteries. Both resist the pulsations of blood, cause back pressure upon the heart. Hardened arteries are irreparable. Tense arteries are that way because sympathetic nerves constrict them. If those nerves are drugged the arteries will relax, the blood pressure will fall. To make such relaxation permanent, surgeons like Dr. Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this...
...although I believe I saw a picture in the papers several years ago of that same statue with a cute little bull dog posed at its feet. It was that same day that I noticed how intense everyone seemed that I saw on the campus. You young men should relax more...