Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...
...skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With the effort of his concert tour still a few weeks away, it must have seemed odd to him to find his easy reflection interrupted by a sharp and growing discomfort in his side...
...Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife. I was unhappy and without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved me and we still love one another. We decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced, and my former wife is now happily married to another man. I married Miss Austral. "How dare the Church...
Which one of the following would you be willing to sacrifice for the sake of being successful: happiness, comfort, reputation, pride, honor, health, money, love...
...apartment dwellers who grumble monthly at the amount of their rent bills, might well take comfort from a consideration of the rent which Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. of New York will soon be paying. Last week this bank contracted to pay rent of almost $500,000 a year for 42 years. Its landlord will be unique Henry L. Doherty; its premises, the first five floors at No. 60 Wall Street (Cities Service Co. building, now being remodeled). Commercial National has signed a 21-year lease with an option for a 21-year renewal. During a prospective 42-year occupancy...