Word: happier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nobody seemed happier about the story than the engineers & scientists, of whom about a hundred thousand read TIME. They sent in any number of blueprints and plans of machines of their own invention, including one from an American Telephone & Telegraph Co. engineer which was called "the No. 2-B Regrettor (assumes a perpetually pessimistic attitude...
...thousands of troubled women who have turned hopefully to Dorothy Dix, none ever found a happier solution than the first. She was Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, sheltered daughter of a genteel but impoverished Tennessee family, and her problem was how to make a living. At 25, with an ailing husband to support, tiny Mrs. Gilmer was a women's-page slavey on the New Orleans Picayune, where she had started at $5 a week...
Last week, as if adding a footnote to this passage, Santayana said: "I have never been happier in my life. . . . Never speak ill of old age; it is fine...
...Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something-something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet...
...film-producing units here, with their immense potentialities for factual and instructional production on film (much of which will become available for those 35,000 nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands, not by any means overlooking the classroom...