Word: floor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital Dr. Greene and the medical staff try to ferret out the cause, then to remove it by teaching "emotional control." The watchword of the institution is Relax. Patients of all ages are taught to relax, by physical training and just lying still-youngsters on mattresses on the floor, adults in underslung steamer chairs. The walls are plastered with signs: "Slow-Easy...
...idea for this barrage of flying discs originated with a radioman named Robert Coar who now operates a recording studio, the Joint Radio Information Facility, on the fifth floor of the old House Office Building. Coar, his wife and a staff of five are on the congressional payroll at salaries totaling $26,000 a year, plus $1 a year rental for Coar's $15,000 worth of recording equipment. The idea came to him, Coar says, because he felt that the press "ridiculed" members of Congress. "I thought Congressmen should tell in their own words what they were doing...
Britain's King George, footloose once more after his long bout with a form of Buerger's disease (TIME, Dec. 6 et seq.), felt fit enough to take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman...
...richest race") was run, it was a sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...
...Grant cornered Los Angeles' widely sought Negro architect, Paul Williams (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), who was buried under plans for $12 million worth of construction work. She talked him into shelving them long enough to design floor plans for her houses. To the surprise of her bankers, who know that Williams' work comes high, he charged her only...