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Word: comfortably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth day we took some cheese and sardines in to the well and had us a regular water drunk, after which we went over to the west shore and bathed in some of the reef pools and took the rest of the afternoon off in warm sandy comfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptilian Denizens of Wallaby Islands Succumb to Wiles of Thirsty Entomologists Living at Cannery | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. is owned jointly by Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore and Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. Chair-man of all three companies is bald, mustached Banker John Edward Aldred of Manhattan to whom the debut of Safe Harbor brought some comfort in a time of trial over the affairs of Gillette Safety Razor Co.* In 1909 John Aldred came down from Canada to be receiver for McCall Ferry Power Co. Under his direction it was reorganized as Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. A big dam at Holtwood, Pa. was completed and began supplying power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Angell's Save Harbor | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...suggested by his boast, which we slightly paraphrase to fit the modern scene, "All the country shall be in common and on the White House grounds shall my palfrey go to grass." Senator Johnson of California must, in his low moments, we are sure, turn to King Lear for comfort, quoting with feeling the old king's bitter cry, "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bombast Circumstance | 12/19/1931 | See Source »

They have a sweatless neighbor woman who must also wet herself for comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Turtle Folk | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

This is a tenable thesis which doubt less affords some comfort to the holder, but it hardly fosters the germs of a cultural or intellectual advance. To bask in the glory of Emerson, it in not necessary to negate the value of Sand-burg. A poet in a cultural index; he is emblematic of the age in which he lives. As such he should not be removed to make way for those who have gone before; rather he should be studied to explain those who come after. The genius of the moderns may be questioned, but it is impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE ME YESTERDAY | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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