Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with this situation, it is a comfort to live in Massachusetts. For the Commonwealth, the home of the Blue Laws and Cotton Mather, of no baseball on Sunday mornings and no sherry under twenty-one, is already resisting. In a sharp letter to the liquor barons, the Massachusetts Beverage Control deplored the use of the "pictures and/or name of St. Nicholas--also called Santa Claus" in its advertising. Here, at least, the spirit that warmed Salem is not yet extinguished...
...main stage will be 35 feet deep with a proscenium height of 25 feet. The proscenium itself can be widened to 60 feet, while the stage house has a total height of 65 feet. Flexibility remains most important; "We have played down audience comfort and sight lines somewhat to make the auditorium more flexible," Myer commented...
...serve only those who wore the magic silver lotus lapel badge. Those who wore it were the 1,000-odd delegates and guests at the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of Delhi's modern House of Science...
...with thirty-odd named characters because it required it, not because I didn't know how to save paint. Some day I'm going to write a play with fifty, eighty, a hundred people--a whole town, a whole race, a whole epoch--for my soul's ease and comfort...
This heavy oversubscription indicated that the Treasury may have put too high an interest rate on the securities. It could take little comfort in what the new offerings did to old Treasury bonds, which were already in trouble. Eleven of the longer-dated issues touched new 1958 lows, and the Government's recent bond issues dropped by as much as two points for the week...