Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which started with the adoption of Mr. Lowell's plan of concentration and distribution, is based upon it but that plan marks the hint of departure from the then prevailing system of university instruction. Before its adoption every Harvard undergraduate selected sixteen courses to fit his intellectual taste and comfort, but today a student seldom makes a move without consulting a multiplicity of divisional and departmental requirements...
...starting lineup will be: Dubiel, le; Burton, lt; Brookings, lg; Comfort, c; Gundlach rg; Adlis, rt; Kelly, re; Haley, qb; Moseley, lhb; Watt, rhb; and Jackson...
...excellence of the picture comes not from it's story. It is Mr. Leherer's delightful bundling techniques, the numerous rique remarks and situations Charles Ruggles' philosophical grumbling that sends the audience chuckling and wheezing. Mr Ruggles plays the comfort-loving father who cares little for church-going, flag waving or his wife's constant admonitions and advice. Mary Boland is given little opportunity to be her usual hysterical self, but she carries off the part of the dominating mother with comical sterness while Mr. Ruggles is stealing most of their scenes...
...conditioning, as the latest wrinkle in U. S. transportation comfort, has helped keep Pullman's great shops open. More than 1,200 Pullman cars have been equipped to date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners...
Pullman is a holding company controlling two distinct organizations. One is The Pullman Co., which has a practical monopoly on railroad comfort.* The other is Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., which is one of the biggest U. S. makers of railroad rolling stock. Lately Pullman's equipment business has fattened on railroad orders financed with PWA loans. It built Union Pacific's two streamlined, high-speed trains, has orders booked for two more. From Pullman, Illinois Central also wants an experimental five-car train...