Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...standard-speed, range, comfort, power-the U. S. Navy's new destroyers (1,500-1,650 tons) are as much superior to the 50 "tin cans" given to Great Britain in the bases deal as a 1941 Cadillac limousine is to a 1908 Maxwell roadster. Yet the Navy was sorry to see its 50 old four-pipers go. They were pesky, hard-sledding, pitched and rolled in any kind of sea with the unpredictable ill humor of a sunfishing mustang. But they were ships. They were reasonably fast (around 35 knots) and they could still make...
...companions nicknamed him "Smigly" (nimble) to describe his particular qualities. After 18 days of fighting, with Hitler's Army snapping at his heels, the nimble Marshal quit the field and skipped across to Rumania, where dignified internment in the Carpathian village of Tasmana enabled him to pursue in comfort his hobbies of gardening and landscape painting...
CONCORD, N. H. The opening of several new ski ledges in New Hampshire has been pointed in by the State Planning and Development commission as an indication of continued growth of the winter vacation business and the attention given to the comfort of skiers and other recreational visitors...
...combatting sabotage. But J. Edgar Hoover, the idol of all American boys from sixteen to sixty, has a healthy thirst for publicity in his own right; and his record in the "Red-scare" of the last war plus more recent incidents like the "Detroit recruiting case" afford little comfort. On the other hand, his position in an-executive department necessarily subjects him to a daily check from above, and his staff is undeniably better equipped than that of the Congressional committee...
...considerable percentage of Harvard undergraduates. If it does, I hope that this attitude is the result of propaganda or of one sided teaching and is not evidence of a softness of the younger generation that makes it unable to be moved by considerations other than its immediate comfort and pleasure. The representation of President Conant, in the garb of the Pilgrims, as wildly and thoughtlessly brandishing a gun, is an insult to the President of Harvard, who undoubtedly thought long and earnestly before stating that he believed the United States should go to war. It is also an insult...