Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...each corporation's "standard" profits (average of several pre-war years) and tax everything it earns above that. This was especially hard on corporations with a poor pre-war earnings history. Looking back on the deficits of Depressions I and II, many a U. S. businessman took no comfort last week in the thought that this tax, too, might be revived. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce thumbed down both taxes, suggested that ordinary income taxes on a growing volume of business should keep the Treasury satisfied...
From time immemorial men have had the idea that people of different body shapes have different temperaments. Despite exceptions, fat people seem in general to be jolly, gregarious, lazy, comfort-loving; thin, wiry or bony people are often secretive, seclusive, introverted;* powerful giants are supposed to be self-assured, mild-mannered and softspoken. Making the maximum possible allowance for environmental conditioning, most biologists insist that there must be some relation left between behavior and physical constitution...
...political parson, Dr. Hart is noted for confining himself to the personal, spiritual needs of his parish. World War II, Term III, Column V, find no place in his sermons. Says he: "There is so little time to bring the comfort and guidance of religion into the daily lives of my congregation . . . [it] cannot be done if one's theme is political...
...compared such catastrophes to the first leaves of a fig tree, by which men know that summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort may perhaps be pardoned. But he who finds in it mere idiocy may perhaps be mistaken...
...staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto newspaper on how long he would stay ("Mr. Roper and Mr. Cromwell each spent about three months") he was reassuring: "I know ... I know . . . I'll stay longer...