Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cold comfort to Scandinavians who last week saw their democratic ideals crumbling under Nazi pressure were Mystagogue Rosenberg's assurances that the Czechs and Slovaks, also German-dominated, "are living just as they had been living for centuries...
...from 24 to 46 hours to make the crossing from Antwerp to Dover or to Hull, and as there would be hundreds of them they could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with war debris as to be useless...
...each corporation's "standard" profits (average of several pre-war years) and tax everything it earns above that. This was especially hard on corporations with a poor pre-war earnings history. Looking back on the deficits of Depressions I and II, many a U. S. businessman took no comfort last week in the thought that this tax, too, might be revived. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce thumbed down both taxes, suggested that ordinary income taxes on a growing volume of business should keep the Treasury satisfied...
From time immemorial men have had the idea that people of different body shapes have different temperaments. Despite exceptions, fat people seem in general to be jolly, gregarious, lazy, comfort-loving; thin, wiry or bony people are often secretive, seclusive, introverted;* powerful giants are supposed to be self-assured, mild-mannered and softspoken. Making the maximum possible allowance for environmental conditioning, most biologists insist that there must be some relation left between behavior and physical constitution...
Temperament. As in physique, Sheldon also finds three components of temperament: viscerotonic, somatotonic, cerebrotonic. The extreme viscerotonic "radiates comfort. He participates easily in social gatherings and makes people feel at home. . . . His joys and sorrows he communicates to others...