Word: comfortably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teams that worked out yesterday afternoon lined up as follows: Team A--Geer, l.e., Simmons, l.t., Schumann, l.g., Comfort, c., Husband, r.g., Adlis, r.t., Knapp, r.e., Hedblom, Parquette, q.b., Fitz, r.h.b., Watt, r.h.b., Jackson, Hedblom...
...first suggestion of comfort came in 1907 when corset-makers hit upon the idea of "anchoring" the corset to the stocking by means of the hose supporter. With little change the corset pinched and pressed its way through the War into the "corsetless era," which was not corsetless at all. It was the age of the girdle. Millions of stout women kept on buying corsets. The slimmer ones took to the girdle. When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came...
...that final religious solace was denied to the men doomed," declared Osservatore. "A drop of liquor and a cigaret were not refused, yet Christ was denied to these unfortunate Germans. How sad their agony must have been. It is unheard of and terrifying to refuse to souls their supreme comfort: God's forgiveness. For the essence of Christianity is the quest of God's forgiveness...
Real significance: Especially in the domestic field, the gains made by oil have been due to its convenience?no shoveling, no ashes, automatically regulated temperatures. Fully perfected equipment for burning coal with similar convenience, greater comfort and less expense is now on the market...
Current fashion in zoo-building is to put animal comfort first, make everything look as unzooish as possible. Like rural Whipsnade in England (TIME, June 18), Chicago's zoo goes easy on fences. Visitors will tingle at the sight of lions, elephants and bears padding in the open over imitation rock (cement sprayed on steel laths), but they will be safe behind invisible moats 12½ ft. deep & wide...