Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the men from Winthrop House. Latest attempt by the Puritan Prom sponsors to help relax those undergraduates afflicted with that dread disease "the reading rattle," the impromptu bleating succeeded in waking up half a dozen Widener nappers...
Briefly slated, the chief area of disagreement in to what extent the many semi-socialistic, debtor nations, particularly the United Kingdom, are willing to relax their closely gripped trade reins and exchange concessions with the great creditor nation, the United States, devoted to a lively, but often capricious free-enterprise system. The first group of nations places a high level of employment and security from depression well before expansion or profits. As one London paper stated on the eve of the meetings, "These countries think that the first task is not to increase world trade but to make its flow...
...world sellers took the risks and losses and profits of the cotton trade. A British Government commission now does Britain's cotton buying. Britain's spinners now pay more for their cotton than spinners elsewhere with access to free markets, but British planners argue that, if they relax their trade tourniquets too much, the economy may bleed to death...
Nanking sent a mission to Formosa to "comfort the people." It was headed by Defense Minister Pai Chung-hsi, who told General Chen to relax his rule, make no more arrests except according...
Reluctantly Amiable. Only in the fastnesses of his pleasant, unpretentious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his wife Portland (the Portland Hoffa of his radio show), does Allen lower his always-loaded guns. Even then, he does not often relax. Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program. Most nights he sleeps only six hours (with ear plugs...