Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace & Comfort...
Eastern colleges should find little comfort in Mr. Tunis's article, for they must admit both the charges to a certain degree. Although most eastern universities possess many courses of undeniably modern scope, the general tendency is to look into the past with such absorption as to be blinded to its relation with the present. No denial of the accusation of materialism is conceivable in face of the huge construction work at Harvard and Yale and its contagious effect on the attitude of smaller colleges. But in general, it may be said, that their position is far less discouraging than...
...entire theatre is built with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a truly oriental manner, with lavish furnishings and chromium-plated fixtures...
...That was why, instead of rear wheels, the cars had tractor bands, why a heavy tanklike arrangement with auxiliary bands was mounted between the front wheels. On the expedition were a dozen men, including one American, the National Geographic Society's Dr. Maynard Owen Williams. For their use & comfort the cars carried stationery, typewriters, archives, maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition, field glasses, compasses, sound picture equipment, botanical, taxidermy, archaeological, meteorological and geological supplies & equipment, wireless sets, a kitchen, an electric power plant, suitcases, shoe boxes, beds, tents, washstands, folding chairs, three-legged stools and a shower bath...
...world authorities on infantile paralysis, with laboratories in Manhattan, last week issued their opinions on the epidemic which afflicted Atlantic seaboard cities last summer and autumn (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The opinions gave small comfort to parents who were glad to have that disease off their minds for a few months...