Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beyond indicating that the sources of university wealth were as rich as ever, the figures were cold comfort to most colleges. Annual gifts and bequests to small colleges (under 1,000) dropped off 37% during Depression, to women's colleges 40%. Responsible for holding the total up were three universities that had good times in bad. The big three, which accounted for more than half the gifts and bequests received by the 49 universities during Depression, were Yale, Harvard and University of Chicago...
...near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score. When Seadlund went to get gasoline for their car from a cache in the woods he turned around to see Gray pointing a gun at him. From this point the witness explained...
...went on, nursing his pipe in informal comfort (he is a big, ruddy man who looks a little like Richard Strauss), "we'll have not only Japanese and Chinese things but also a great wealth of primitive objects from the South Seas and Australia...
...distillers, saloonkeepers and topers, Professor Pearl gave this crumb of comfort : "No measurable effect of the moderate use of alcoholic beverages on longevity can be demonstrated, although heavy indulgence definitely and considerably impairs life expectation...
After eight years of interviewing industrial leaders, explorers and prominent people generally, Joseph Mitchell came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell...