Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynchees were "certainly innocent" of any crime. At Mount Vernon, Ga., black S. S. Mincey, local G. 0. Politician, pressed his partisan agitation too far for the comfort of Democrats. A masked mob dragged him from his home, beat in his skull, left him to die from concussion of the brain. At Thomasville, Ga., black Lacy Mitchell dared to testify against two white men charged with raping a Negro woman. Four men, the defendants' friends, dragged Lacy Mitchell from his home, shot him dead...
...Comfort...
...days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...believes production of food from wood far from impossible and will use his prize money to carry on his experiments. Ardent experimenter, he has spent large sums of his own money, raised other large sums, to carry on his work. Bergius beliefs: "Progress is a matter of meeting exigencies. . . . Comfort is the basis of civilization...
...showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author Wilder has returned at last to the U. S. But The Long Christmas Dinner will give little aid & comfort to patriotic critics: no potential bestseller, its appeal is limited to the intelligentsia, for the affluent of whom there is a special edition of 500 copies (autographed...