Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure sympathy for the victim, it might at first thought be suggested that this University offer him aid and comfort; but the suggestion dies in dread of the result of furnishing refuge to all Yale men who desire to marry. On second thought sympathy gives way to apprehension, lest the University itself adopt rules similar to the one just enforced in New Haven. Next term's Regulations might include such clauses as: "Undergraduates announcing their engagements shall be placed on probation", or "No man shall be eligible for the Deans' List until he has taken a vow of celibacy...
...most begoverned people in the world." Between the proposers of extraordinary blue laws and equally extraordinary anti-blue laws the public is sure to be caught by the devil and the deep blue sea either going or coming. But while feasting on this lugubrious thought, it may be some comfort to know that other nations have their petty restrictions...
...whimpering that the people have been deceived or bought; that the organization of the Republicans is invincible; that what worn and stale stump-speech slang calls 'the interests' are too strong or our foes too cunning for us, or in raking about for stray scraps of comfort or loose fragments of rainbow hopes here and there-mostly there. We have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities. Either the people are wrong or we Democrats here in Congress who have made the record for our party the last four years are wrong. From...
...started life 59 years ago. Aged 28 (when he was an insignificant storekeeper), he raised the enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
...ought to be a great comfort to every college student whose life-work is still a mystery to him to learn that success is a simple matter of training. If one would be a Shakespeare, a Bismarck, or a Newton, let him forget the "bete noire" of special gifts, of adverse talents and misapplied genius, and go through the necessary ritual of preparation. That is all there is to it--at least, according to Professor John B. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University...