Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin. Its passenger compartment will be kept at low-altitude air pressure for passengers' comfort while the plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation's greatest developments in the last decade, and Douglas planes have taken the lead in making a high curve the shortest traveling distance between any two points in the U. S. DC-4 will heighten the curve, shorten the distance. Without pressurized cabins, planes now fly as high...
...roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought...
With this candid, sympathetic portrait it becomes clearer why Chinese chopsticks have so long been at home in Confucianism's dish: No other ethical system has ever permitted so much moral, mental and worldly comfort under one head...
...bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...
...prison but are open to the use of all without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part...