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Word: comfortable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart patients, revived attention in such esophageal auscultation. The heart is closer to the esophagus than to any other reachable part of the body. Hence its sound can be heard most clearly through the esophagus wall. But to gain extra clearness at the cost of a patient's comfort is something that few doctors will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine Notes, Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Spectators at the last two games have noticed and appreciated the promptness with which the H. A. A. has cooperated with suggestions which have been made to them in regard to the stadium. The time clock has been a great comfort in critical moments, and the padding along the railing of the field has removed an unnecessary danger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE WAS MOSES? | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...surges ever upward, froths to a peak in 1927. To many an oldster who went to college when colleges were smaller, less heterogeneous, this is a sorrowful thing. A profusion of academic degrees, to them, is a metabolistic agent, transforming incipient, able bricklayers into impotent lawyers. For oldsters came comfort last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neap Tide | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Athletic Association. And those who have hurriedly pushed the last few sentences along a hesitating wire amid sullen curses addressed to weather conditions and press boxes alike, will be the first to realize the paper value and so the money value of conditions conducive to speed and comfort in play by play reporting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TOP OF THE STADIUM | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Chicago and South Bend from three hours to two hours. Passengers had for their comfort observation cars with swivel chairs, smoking compartments, women's lounges, buffet kitchens. A quarter of a million passengers travel on it each month now, and factories ship a quarter of a million tons of goods by it monthly. With profits went further improvements. Last August employes with delight began burning all the company's wooden cars-because they had enough all steel rolling stock for their needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coffin Medal | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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