Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where is comfort? in cross-section? 'Tis a president's idle word...
While Colby pondered the matter, an offer came of a site in Augusta, on the estate of William Howard Ganett, retired publisher of Comfort.* Colby declined. Its loyalty to Waterville was rewarded: Citizens donated 600 acres on Mayflower Hill in the outskirts. There, when the $3,000,000 is raised, a new Colby will rise, on a cruciform campus with redbrick, white-columned Georgian buildings...
John Harvard may now settle back in complacent comfort, confident that he has at last made a generous sacrifice for the good of humanity. --Daily Princeton
There are always people who are willing to give money for the laying of brick on brick. There ought to be some also willing to contribute to scholarship and loan funds, upon which depends not the comfort of men in college but the possibility for some of coming to Harvard...
...last March became, by the death of an elder brother, third Earl Russell. He plans to take his seat in the House of Lords, where his peers will probably give him a chilly reception. Well-known is he as author of many a book not calculated to give aid & comfort to orthodoxy: Roads to Freedom, Philosophy, Sceptical Essays, Marriage and Morals, The Conquest of Happiness...