Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the earth. With power comes opportunity and with opportunity responsibility. Our own right hand may yet teach us terrible things. Our power is likely to grow still greater in the world, and what do we want our nation to become? Shall we be satisfied with material wealth and comfort, or do we desire a higher destiny? In the ancient world there were two peoples, both commercial, both prosperous, both powerful in their day and both at last conquered by the Romans. One of them, the Greeks, led the way for all later European peoples in art, in literature...
...hard as their ancestors fought for it. But they so far have had few champions to take up the cudgels in their behalf. Those psycho-analysts who have studied New England cases have recognized some of the evils of this strange mental heritage, but they have given little comfort to its victims...
Moreover, "it has been done"; in 1916 the Commencement Exercises were held in the Stadium, and according to all reports it was a highly successful occasion. Whatever sentiment and tradititon may favor Sanders, it does not seem that they outweigh the facts of the greater comfort, capacity, and beauty of the Stadium...
...many years. The figures are, to be exact, 81 to 66 in favor of the "Y", the understanding being that party affiliations have been obliterated in the issue, Republicans and Democrats voting miscellaneously. The key, it is true, comes in a good second, but a good second is small comfort for the loss of what has long been a good first...
...prevent stagnation, and its corresponding effect on the country. The failure or stagnation of the railroads would mean the complete collapse of industrial prosperity. The railroads employ ten per cent of the laborers in the country, and buy one third of the annual coal output. The life, convenience, and comfort of the public depend on the success of the railroads. Government ownership and control would eventually mean this collapse, due to political corruption and inefficiency, with the worst possible results to the public welfare...