Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should like to see some method employed for beating the cars of the Union Railroad Company in the winter time. In this age, when one's comfort is taken into so much consideration, it seems strange that a person living in Cambridge must spend the thirty-five minutes taken up by the passage to Boston, in a car in which the temperature seems lower, if possible, than that of the outside...
...Boston, and in many cases would prefer to walk were it not for the time it would take to reach his destination. For the very reason that the Union Railroad Company has the monopoly of the passenger traffic between Cambridge and Boston, it should be more solicitous for the comfort of its patrons in this respect...
...Davis' lectures in Natural History 1 and 8 will hereafter be delivered in U. 4, instead of at the museum. The members of these courses are very thankful to Mr. Davis, for his kind attention to their comfort and convenience, as shown in this change...
...means at present employed to heat some of the dormitories are decidedly inefficient. A stove is not a pleasant thing to have in a room, while the fire-places in some of the buildings, especially Weld and Matthews, are wholly incapable of heating the rooms comfortably. It is hard to see why steam heating is not introduced. If this were done, the comfort of occupants of rooms would be greatly enhanced, and it would be much more economical than the present manner. Of course each man would be compelled to pay a certain amount per year, but it would...
...made a bed on the floor of the cave. With two broad leafy boughs, he made, as it were, curtains for the door, which should screen Tue from the fire, but not cut her off from its heat. Tue watched him, as he made all these arrangements for her comfort, with a feeling in which alarm was tempered by a strange complacency...