Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Efforts are being made to teach the people to live with more comfort. Along the coast, for example, woolen weaving has been established so that during the winter the women can make clothes, and agricultural stations have been located in the less barren parts of the country where experiments are made. Lumber mills have been established, and several peat bogs have been opened. In a word, the most is being made out of the limited resources of the country...
...could do it" is the pathetic, hesitating complaint. And although no one denies that the ability to handle a boys' club is a faculty worth cultivating, the natural fear of facing singlehanded a whole troop of noisy, critical, sarcastically impudent youngsters is not pleasant when viewed from the comfort of an arm-chair. However, victories are not won in arm-chairs; and the test of this pudding, as many men will testify, is in the eating thereof...
...stand from one to four hours at a stretch at the desks in Boylston and Dane Halls. It is needless to say that such an arrangement not only tires the aspiring chemists physically, but renders them mentally incapable of their best work. The Physics laboratories have stools for the comfort of the men who use them. It seems hardly fair that the most simple necessities for sustained labor should not be provided equally in all parts of the University; and we wish to call the attention of the Department of Chemistry to the need for stools or high benches...
...addition to this ideal of moderate rather than excessive wealth, the busi- ness man should entertain a right standard of living. The simple life is undoubtedly the ideal life, but the simple life does not mean a life without comfort and refinement. It does mean a life that is not lowered by undue extravagance and the reckless expenditure of large sums of money...
...conducts afternoon and evening classes in all grammar and secondary school subjects, and includes advanced practical courses fitting directly either for business or the civil service examinations. Secondly, as a club for men it offers its members, in a central location, 744 Massachusetts avenue, "a measure of the comfort that goes with a cozy living room, easy chairs, and good company...