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Word: comfortable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a boil on Britain's elbow is highly vulnerable, belligerently neutral Eire, too close for comfort across the Irish Sea. Like a carbuncle on Eire's neck are the six counties of Northern Ireland. Last week both ached and pained like fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Aches and Pains | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Symphony for the Dodgers | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Doffing her slippers for comfort but keeping on her negligee for safety, she demonstrated to three eager CRIMSON reporters the intricacies of the tango and the modern waltz. "That boy who danced with me out at Harvard was pretty good," she confessed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sally "Had Fun" But Fears Boys Were Shocked at Tales | 5/8/1941 | See Source »

...half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Typhoon | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mediterranean Balance Sheet | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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