Word: slacken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each. . . . Rail roads will buy nearly twice as many freight cars in 1929 as they bought in 1928. . . . Two Chicago office buildings are using 14,-000 tons of structural steel. . . . General picking up in the building industry. . . . Automobiles expecting a 5,200,000 1929 production. . . . Production is expected to slacken during the next three months, but it can be 18% below 1929's second quarter and still be ahead of 1928's third quarter...
...Stadium exercises of Class Day will in annual fashion remind many that Harvard has found at least one more use for a temple consecrated particularly to the happy warrior. But the bonds that once joined the Stadium with the drama of the open air have been allowed to slacken. Past example has proven its worth as an amphitheater. Acoustic difficulties spring up forthright in the layman's mind: the professional has on at least three occasions found them negligible. The association between the Stadium and the theatre's best in artistic out-of-door production is more real than...
...forth-co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...
...Riffians to the annoyance of Secretary Kellogg (TIME, Sept. 28, THE CABINET), has been "disbanded" and the airmen are returning to Paris. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kerwood of the Escadrille declared not long ago (TIME, Oct. 19) that he and his comrades will reassemble in Morocco as soon as rains slacken enough to permit effective flying...
...watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...