Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Administration disagreed on the amount of room changing the uniform rent and allocation by seniority would inspire. Although it was reported that Yale students, who pay a standard rent, often shift rooms annually, Glimp observed that "there is a general propensity for creature comfort" in New Haven which he doubted exists at Harvard
Munro will have to make the most of his sophomores and Azinna Nwafor--a transfer student from Bowdoin--to handle Amherst's speed and experience. The same Jeff eleven that shellacked the Crimson at Harvard last Fall will have the added comfort of playing on its own field...
...religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Florence Gowns Inc. of Cleveland showed a line of "hostess gowns...
...only give people what they want," say the undertakers, and it is a point well taken. Fortified with the deceased's insurance money and sadly out of touch with the spiritual traditions of the past, many Americans search for comfort in the face of death by conspiring with the technicians and gimmick merchants to pretend that it hasn't really happened. This is their right. But it is wrong that anyone who wants to buy a plain wood coffin no matter what kind of car he drives should feel that it is disrespectful of the dead...
...convinced that one-class service will not spread. Last week Patterson's archcompetitor, crusty C. R. Smith, 63, president of second-place American Airlines, made clear how he feels. Said Smith: "A single class of service must be a compromise; it can offer neither maximum economy nor maximum comfort and convenience...