Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter dimensions. This phenomenon has pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
...note of warning, however, Dr. Russell pointed out that until preventive steps are taken the world over, every community is in danger of having disease brought into its midst by travellers and tourists, and can never afford to relax its vigilance...
...like burlesque and Annabella, relax for three hours at the University; if you dislike to see Shakspere used to confound the unenlightened, and to watch English producers get horribly involved in their machinations to make a mystery picture mysterious, fidget and repent that you did not go elsewhere...
Colleges cooperating in the plan, in addition to admitting without examination, have also agreed to relax the 15 unit requirement. No decision can be made on the success of this move until elaborate data is compiled over a period of several years...
Public service is fast becoming the keynote of modern legal training. The young lawyer must learn to act as a mediator of human affairs rather than as a craftsman. Although the Law School will try to develop this attitude in its students, it will not relax its technical training in the least, Dean Landis added...