Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Millionaire. People with incomes of $10,000 or more made up only 1.79% of all taxpayers, but they paid 42.14% of the tax. Only the returns of people in high income brackets got automatic, detailed inspection. But the average man could get scant comfort from this- all returns were checked for arithmetic and obvious larceny, and 150,000 would be picked at random during 1949 and investigated down to the last deduction...
...Prize, critical acclaim and a big, new reading public. Proceeds from the Apley play and movie settled him even more firmly on Easy Street, and since 1944 his B-O-M job (a part-time reading chore) has brought him another $20,000 a year. Practical, a lover of comfort and the good things of life (including, among others, three cars, two Scotches before dinner), Marquand is by no means contemptuous of money and is mightily pleased that he has made the financial grade. But like Charley Gray, he knows that something is missing. He wishes there were something more...
...when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
There was no literature on the subject, so the doctors duplicated the trouble in three monkeys by cutting the same nerves. Then they worked out an operation on the monkeys that allowed them to eat again in comfort. Ready for the real test, the doctors took part of a muscle from the patient's neck and sewed it to his Adam's apple. This muscle normally helps control the tongue. But it worked; the patient could raise his Adam's apple. It was the first such operation, say the three surgeons, that has ever been performed...
Doctors have tried, but over the years they have found nothing that is sure comfort to people who get sick riding on ships, planes, streetcars or camels. They have given advice (eat, don't eat, lie down, move around, wear an abdominal belt, keep your eye on the horizon). They have also suggested such medicines as Atropine (which tones down intestinal activity, believed to be a factor in nausea), Prostigmin (which keeps the stomach working in the right direction), and sedatives. Nothing worked well enough...