Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed to help the student continue "properly" his education. Thus it might enable Eli to "go home at Christmas time or to buy much-needed new clothes." If Eli is a commuter, the extra money might enable him to "join Dudley Hall (where he can meet fellow students and relax) instead of having to eat his lunch out of a paper bag in Boyiston Reading Room...
...line with the trend to relax burdensome parietal rules are several new regulations recently announced. Cautiously, but none the less openly, Eliot House has extended radio hours to 11:30 on Saturday nights to allow students to listen to the excellent music at that time...
...inches high), idol-like, plaster figure, in red, black, white, blue or yellow, designed to fit the angry human hand. Directions for using: "When you are mad or feel like busting things, be sure to grab him quick and smash him - SMACK! - to bits against the wall and then, relax!" The wackaroo smashes to very satisfactory smithereens...
...watch him is to wonder more and more at this little Gaul. Like a cat, he is at once perfectly relaxed and hair-trigger quick. Parry, parry, feint, feint-his man hopelessly out of position-touche! Like an angler playing a fish is one simile that comes to mind. Echoes have been heard of his merry wit. And he once drove racing cars, though he ruefully admits that he never won a race. Yet the most engaging thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance...
...peacetime conscription. Passed were bills to spend $16,920,627,477.15 ($9,114,345,921.58 worth for defense). Last week, weary with waiting, watching and working, its "must" legislation complete and a new Congress about to convene in six weeks, the 76th Congress hoped it could go home and relax...