Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball captain Bart Harvey's running brought comment from Harlow, too, Carrying the ball for Team B, last summer's star second baseman reeled off several impressive gains to tighten his hold on the Varsity jersey he gained last Friday...
...Giving the patient a couple of snifters of whiskey, "one of the best" circulatory stimulants. The old routine of "sticking a cigaret in a wounded soldier's mouth" is very dangerous. Reason: smoking, "without question," causes the small blood vessels to tighten...
TIME'S Wilmott Ragsdale wasn't sure you could do a loop in an Army glider until he went up in one at the new glider school at Twentynine Palms, California -suddenly felt his safety belt tighten and saw the desert above...
...because it is an imposition on India. It is not at India's request or consent that they are here. It is enough irritation that we were not consulted before being dragged into war-that is our original complaint-but to have brought American forces here is to tighten the stranglehold on us. I am not prejudiced against Americans and my thousands of friends in America, but it is my point that all these things are not happening at the invitation of India...
...earlier generation remembers a music professor who herded hundreds into his course by the simple expedient of giving A's. Of course the Overseers didn't like him, because he said "to the very dickens with them" whenever asked to tighten up. But he achieved his purpose, which was to see that none left Cambridge without having developed a taste for music...