Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cambridge on June 21, it has been found necessary to hold the Commencement exercises in Sanders Theatre and not in the Stadium as was previously announced. Following the precedent of last year, it had been planned to hold these exercises in the Stadium because of the increased room and comfort thereby gained, but since military training will greatly decrease the number who will be able to be present at Commencement, the University authorities believe Sanders Theatre will be large enough to accommodate those who attend...
...should be urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which...
...members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those. ". . . adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort...
...diagnosis of an abnormal heart. My feeling is that much harm is being done by the popular impression that athletics are a frequent cause of heart disease. I have tried to show that in some aspects at least this diagnosis has been based upon incorrect criteria. I find considerable comfort in the vigorous statements of Sir James MacKenzie, the eminent English authority on heart disease, that he doubts the existence of the athletic heart and refers to it as "an unfortunate bogey...
...William Wistar Comfort, now professor of Romance Languages at Cornell University, has been elected president of Haverford College...