Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to these societies, the prerequisites necessary to be a pacifist are "intrepidity, contempt for comfort, surrender of private interest, obedience to command." War can be stopped if enough people are determined to pay the cost...
...little sleep might be lost over the lack of scoring punch in the forward line, too. Almost all the booters' victories have been too close for much comfort. Look at the record: they beat Massachusetts State by one lone penalty kick, and ended with only a one point margin in their 4 to 3 win over Williams. In that 1 to 1 tie with Darmouth the boys threatened the Big Green nets enough, but that certain something that would have broken the deadlock was lacking. Yet it must be remembered that there are two efficient Sophomores, Herky Herskovits and Jack...
...Louis Comfort Tiffany, head man almost until his death in 1933, intensified his father's love for privacy. When the 37th Street store was built in 1905, Tiffany avoided telling anything about his business even to a banker. He paid $2,000,000 cash for the land, $2,000,000 cash for the building. To this day Tiffany & Co. has never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales...
Somewhat dashed, the United Lutherans took what comfort they could in the fact that they had at least achieved union with the few (6,000) U. S. and Canadian members of the Icelandic Synod...
...resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward war during the '30s by skipping from country to country each year, contrasting the opulence at the beginning of the decade with the poverty of the later years, the comfort of the democracies with the misery of the dictatorships, the peace and indifference of the haves with the militant fever of the havenots. The film takes no chances on letting the audience forget the fact that the irresistible note of doom runs through every shot of men marching, men striking...