Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman himself had done little to clear the air. At his weekly press conference, he denounced a Republican proposal to relax antitrust laws and permit voluntary price agreements. He was apparently ignorant of the fact that a similar provision had been written into an Administration bill already submitted to Congress...
...Crimson was never behind, but the customers didn't have a chance to relax until the final whistle, as Johnny Chase's Varsity sextet opened their season by racking up a 4 to 3 upset over B.C. last night...
...these rulings, the University has acknowledged that proctors, tutors, and graduate students alike have only one place where they may entertain and relax--their quarters. It has judged the social life of these men to be more important than the puritanical mores of out society, more important than the jittery nerves of mothers of local college girls, and more important than whatever publicity might--but almost never does--result in the scandal-hungry Boston press. It has also judged that the social life of undergraduates is not equally important...
...house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them. I wish they could teach me to relax...
...Stein style at its Steiniest, and reading it takes more than most readers want to give. Even admirers of Gertrude Stein will be grateful to Thornton Wilder for his luminous introduction. Wilder's advice to the reader: be intelligent enough to put aside the vanity of intelligence; relax and listen. The reward: a pleasurable sense of listening to nonsense that is unique...