Word: comfortable
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...