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Word: comfortable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action by meeting squarely and unequivocally . . . the vital and controversial issues on which the isolationists kept us out of the League of Nations. . . . Governor Dewey . . . has spoken for a strong international security organization, but in each speech has so worded his commitment that both isolationists and internationalists could find comfort in what he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Ball Decides | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...expense of reconversion (average cost per unit: $35) will pay off in comfort. For coal users will not be able to keep warm this winter unless 1) the weather is mild; 2 ) they spread the thin supply skillfully. The prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Back to Oil | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...four-passenger ship with a speed of at least 130 m.p.h., a range of 500 miles, priced from $1,500 to $3,500. Two surprising facts: designers, in the main, feel the public will not want 1) a flivver plane selling for $1,000 or less, if speed and comfort are sacrificed, 2) a helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: FAMILY PLANE | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...enemy lost no time in ballyhooing the discomfiture thus visited upon the elsewhere victorious United Nations. Berlin, hungry for a crumb of comfort though it fell 5,000 miles away, proclaimed: "Japanese military authorities are busy making the necessary preparations to forestall an eventual American landing on the Chinese coast. . . . The bolstering of the defenses of Formosa is one of them. . . . The area of Foochow ... is likewise being furnished with a powerful defense system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Sightless Giant | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

Many surgeons have been cutting out complete rest for operative and childbed patients, and the medical men may eventually catch up in learning that a few minutes' activity four or five times a day can be a great comfort-and a life saver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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