Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside their Tientsin Concession the Japanese military set up a loudspeaker system to "explain" their action to English-speaking passersby. Said the plaintive voice through the loudspeaker: "We are so sorry to be giving you lots of trouble...
While more attention is daily being paid to the student's physical comfort, less fruitful concern seems to center on his intellectual stimulation. A tutorial system is provided but the best tutors receive little recognition for their proficiency in this work; additional neophytes are added as section men for the ever growing social science courses, but the men on whom the real teaching burden rests are fired; this year ten assistant professors have been released. Harvard's administrators have provided a tentative and incomplete blueprint for a new educational structure but have failed to conserve the vital energies which alone...
...crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot of the library steps, showed them the King's College charter issued by George II in 1754. Ahead was an 80-mile drive up the Hudson, with no comfort stops...
...Krohler Manufacturing Co., Iowa Painter Grant Wood designed an overstuffed, tasseled, neo-Victorian chaise longue (see cut). Blurbed Painter Wood: "This chair was conceived in comfort and dedicated to the principle of utter relaxation. I hope you like it." With each chair goes a color reproduction of his Woman With Plants...
...tests conducted with Dartmouth undergraduates, advertised products were best remembered when the commercial announcements appealed to selfesteem. Other appeals, in order of their persuasiveness : prestige, health, universality, sex, efficiency, economy, beauty, safety, comfort...