Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Gallagher sat in the back seat of their car while Mr. Gallagher's sister drove them from Boston to New York. Near New Haven, Mrs. Gallagher was pleased to see her husband relax, close his eyes, decided not to wake him. Not until she reached New York (73 mi.) did she realize that he was dead...
After Congress (by the Thomas amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act) put it up to the President to inflate in five different ways, Senator Thomas did not relax but stayed close to Washington, all last summer and autumn, to prod the President on. In September he wired all the members of Congress, lining them up "20-to-1" for the program of inflation. In October he was ballyhooing a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless the Administration took inflationary steps...
...them would be scattered to all parts of the building. With these books stripped from the shelves, the House library would become as disappointing a place as Widener, where only too often the desired book "will be back December 4." Many a time when a student will want to relax of an evening in the "Omnibus of Crime," that worthy work will be lying untouched in the darkness of some bureau drawer...
...average commuter was rather unfortunate. Compelled usually to remain around Harvard during most of the day for classes, special library study, or athletics, he found himself with no common, congenial place to meet his fellow commuters and eat with them, to study and read, or even simply to relax. Phillips Brooks House made a commendable effort to meet these needs, but its facilities are naturally limited, and what arrangements have been made are admittedly only temporary. The Student Council's suggestion for spreading the outside men among the Houses is beset with all manner of difficulties and seems almost incapable...
...line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine was only 22.33 seconds behind Gar Wood at the end and that was the nearest Gar Wood has let any contender approach him in the Harmsworth Cup races...