Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1895 has the U.S. had so few acres planted to cotton, the Agriculture Department announced last week. Next day the War Food Administration prepared to relax its hold on cotton sales, left farmers free to sell all they could harvest. No longer must planters pay an 8?-a-lb. penalty for all sales above their AAA marketing quotas...
...thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his home-town love and will never have a chance to relax with the belles of Greater Boston...
Retreat from Neutrality. In June 1941, when the U.S. had decided to relax some of the niceties of,a ruinous neutrality, the U.S. Army set up its own Ferrying Command to deliver bombers to England itself. Its chief: the late Major General Robert Olds, then a colonel...
...like to combine these pleasant sounds with the sweet strains of a fine orchestra. Sunday night, May 23rd, is Officers' night at "Pops," a concert of popular and semi-classical music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Arthur Fielder. The whole gang will be there to sip, relax, and listen; so be sure to see Mrs. Duncan in Craft, Room 324, to reserve a table with your friends...
...Relaxed Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...