Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral, palace, fortress, nearly all their oldest stone buildings, withstood the hurricane...
...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...
...Rollin might draw some comfort from the fact that British shipbuilding during the last three months was off 222,000 tons compared with the corresponding period in 1929. But no comfort came from news that during the same period Germany had laid keels for 64,000 new tons and had built 237,468 tons, while France had begun construction on but 20,000 new tons, had turned out only 186,960 tons...
...native but found he had no talent for it. He inadvertently assists Hops and Plana during a round-up hunt at which most of their companions perish. In late winter he again saves Plana, famished and freezing, by giving her shelter in his kennel. Plana leaves this comfort, however, to rejoin Hops, who, with the coming of spring, has conquered his pessimism with a gentle Christian philosophy. The two frisk on to the last page, ears a-wiggle, appearing to be, after a year of platonic cohabitation, upon the verge of a deeper intimacy...
...kind of farm relief it was supplying continued to grow at such a rate that President Hoover was seriously advised by G. O. P. leaders to give up his summer trip into that disaffected territory lest unseemly scenes along his route cause him public embarrassment. Only crumb of comfort for the Administration and the Board: in his daily syndicated message Calvin Coolidge said: "It would certainly be fair and probably wise to defer judgment on the reported actions of the Federal Farm Board until the results are fully matured and they are in a position to reveal what they have...