Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submit this for the smile that's in it and trust I am not giving too much aid and comfort to the enemy...
...buying cars during the last four years, John Public thought it considered most important in order of preference: dependability, safety, operating economy, comfort, appearance, smoothness, ease of control, pickup, speed, first cost...
Some historical plays, to be sure, are made of sterner stuff and use the past for what it can say to the present. In Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Playwright Sherwood beats the drum for liberal democracy; in Knickerbocker Holiday, the author of High Tor gives comfort to high Tories...
Altogether the game was one long continuation of the good taste left by Harvard's last-minute pay-off against Dartmouth. During the second quarter, with the score 7-7, the good taste was a little too fluffy for mouth comfort, but the third and fourth cantos dispelled all trace of gloom. In the first period it took exactly five minutes for the Crimson to march 75 yards for the first score. On the first play, wingback Torby Macdonald broke through the weak side of the Tiger line for 16 yards, three plays later he romped 30 yards...
Democrats. As the party in power, Democrats debouched upon the nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania-for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs-went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could so comfort Republicans as to win back Pennsylvania, which they lost four years ago. Result in funds raised...