Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved too hectic for University Hall. As Dean Von Stade tersely reported to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "As the class increased in size after the war, the Smoker was moved to Sanders and became something far too close to a Bacchanalia for anyone's comfort. Attempts were made, over the past few years, to initiate various measures to make the Smoker a pleasant outlet for mid-winter tensions without running the risk of loss of control of the situation. These attempts failed, and the Smoker has been abolished." The University had apparently failed to establish...
...push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical capsule and lay on a molded bed of silicone rubber covered for her comfort with a thin mattress of rubber foam...
Might it also be comfortable? Where would the refrigerator go? Won't those balconies be dangerous for children? How about privacy, heating and storage? Kiesler does have answers to these questions, though as an all-out idea man he can be impatient with too much insistence on the practical. Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...
Courtney was a continuous inspiration, a font of comfort and reassurance to all about him, as he occupied the exposed position at the very bottom of his class. Everyone enjoyed him. One of his roommates remembers that "Courtney slept most of the time, except when he played cards. He was swell. His mother sent him brownies." Another recalls, "He seldom gave anyone trouble. You see, he talked only on infrequent occasions, and then not very well...