Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Extremists either for or against tobacco will derive small aid and comfort from Professor O'Shea's compilation of data on Tobacco and Mental Efficienc*?the most temperate, unbiased and scientific approach to the question yet published. The book is the first of a series of studies projected by the Committee to Study the Tobacco Problem, organized in 1918, a group of 59 physicians, psychologists, physiologists, economists, educators and other leaders interested in the subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs...
Since then Mr. Gilbert's career has been a succession of steps into bigger and better boots?into the boots of his superiors, into boots manufactured for his own comfort...
...fact that no patriarch can be deposed without the written consent of his peer. This written consent the radicals failed to obtain from Tikhon's peer, Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, and from him the quasi Patriarch of Moscow is now said to be seeking aid and comfort. But the Most Rev. Metataxis is himself in trouble, owing to the Turks, and to those Greeks who wish to see a rapid peace at Lausanne. Metataxis (TIME, May 12, June 11), is unalterably opposed to the Turks, yet resides in their capital city. It is as if the Dalai Lhama...
...reparation of the devastated areas, France paid, up to January 1, 1923, $5,985,000,000. Further work to be done will cost $3,150,000,000 more, making a total bad debt of $9,135,000,000. The only comfort for the French lies in the fact that the deficits thus incurred are represented by tangible property improvement and reconstruction, so that the country is richer by that much material gain, whether the franc depreciates further...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " The public has been sandbagged and blackjacked both ways, coming and going, by the railroads." . . . The Government would con-duct the roads with some regard for the health and comfort of the public...