Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition's designers, mostly in their 20s and 30s, proved that they could ingeniously solve some of the main problems of modern furniture design: lightness, mobility, ease of manufacture, comfort. Two problems remained relatively unsolved: 1) prices low enough to suit the average man's purse (sample: $75 for Saarinen and Eames's plywood chair); 2) looks handsome enough to improve the average man's home...
Opening Volume I of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years to page 553, he read the assembled newspapermen what the Emancipator said to Mary Livermore, the Civil War reformer and social worker who visited him for a word of cheer and comfort after one of the war's bloodiest battles, Antietam...
...Belcher Islanders the trial was a sort of game. The defendants greeted the judicial party when the schooner anchored, shook hands all around and helped set up the tent. And because the Eskimos love the comfort of the white men's jails, the verdicts were satisfactory. The two Messiahs, Sala and Ouyerack, were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to two years apiece. One disciple was sentenced to a year's hard labor, three others were released. With the prisoners when the schooner sailed back to Moose Factory was Mina. The jury had decided that she was insane...
...China hands who were left took no comfort from their drinks at "the longest bar in the world" in the Shanghai Club, but they were determined to stay until the bitter end, until actual war made them move. For a storm warning they looked to Shanghai's famed Fourth Marines. So long as the U.S. kept the Marines in Shanghai, die-hards reasoned they would be safe...
...occasion was manufactured to give inspiration to national defense workers, comfort to the U.S.'s allies. But the achievement was real. Nine months previously the first shovelful of dirt had been turned on a site where the plant was to grow. Now it stood there complete, more than 34 acres of floor space, crowded with machine tools operated by 6,500 workmen...