Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest luxuries enjoyed by the NTS men, that of eating in comfort, is gone with the labor shortage, as of today. Starting with this morning's breakfast, the trainees will have to carry their own trays...
...Radio Rome once asked: "Who cares about American radio nonsense?" Apparently some Italians do, for the Italian stations are forever burlesquing U.S. broadcasts, Sample: "An American sub named Comfort Station, manned by five men and a lady assistant, Miss Higgins, has sunk the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean. All Italy's aghast...
...good works had caused him five times as much trouble as his business. Having given away some $60,000,000 he swore he would give no more. But last week he headed into more trouble: for scientific and medical research, public health, social studies, and "the care and comfort of aged people" he created a $40,000,000 trust fund. Peacetime automaker (Morris, Wolseley), Lord Nuffield is now one of Britain's main armorers, also one of her most unreconstructed individualists. Chief financial angel of Oxford University, he was once so moved by Oxonians' eloquent thanks...
...novel, Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
Only a few generations ago people lived in temperatures of 55 degrees, but changes in heating systems and weight of clothing have driven the comfort temperature for women up to 76 degrees and for men to 72 degrees, he said...