Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cradles," of Miss Cowl. There is perhaps little more for soft epigrams like "Agenius? Someone who's always searching for something", which are five percent humor and ninety-five percent Jane Cowl. But there is something magical in the transformation of earned power that follows upon Harlequin's cool comfort of "That's life" to deserted Columbine. Miss Cowl turns her head suddenly up, and cries: "It's not; it's hundreds of little deaths...
...from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly has not been as widely circulated; nevertheless his example may serve to comfort any similar unfortunates in today's sweep-stakes. But no loyal son of a college whose team has defeated Yale's in a competitive examination can doubt that when the smokes of battle have cleared away the last white line will have been passed with at least an honors grade...
...sought comfort by burying her dark head in her mother's bosom. Her entire body was racked with sobs," said a despatch which made cinema fans chuckle...
Today at 5 o'clock at the Harvard Union. Tau Beta Pi of the Engineering School will hold its initiations. The Initiates are: Comfort Avery Adams, S. B., E.E., D.Eng., Abbot and Lawrence Professor of Engineering, C. J. Hooper '29, G. McD, Ide '29, M. H. MacKusick '29, and M. B. Nunlist...
Charles F. Kettering, chief engineer of General Motors Corp., is personally supervising the building of the Kettering yacht. He has designed a device to synchronize electrically the two Diesel motors, a mercury stabilizer to replace the gyroscope, many another automatic and electrical control for comfort and convenience...