Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotch town of Levenford, James Brodie, hatter, independent as a hog on ice, was considered an outstanding citizen, considered himself preeminent. That he was merely a hatter was a source of amusement to him; his business had brought him comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal...
...Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...
...many things that can be and are being said about love, Author Goodman has chosen to voice the cynical. He pleads an unpopular cause, but the cases he presents make their occasional point. Of these 17 short stories not one gives aid & comfort to romantic love...
...bromidioms. Though democracy can lead boys to college in great numbers, educators still complain that, like the proverbial horse and the watering trough, it cannot make them think. "Too many men go to college without any real fitness for higher education or capacity of profiting by it," declares President Comfort of Haverford College. His answer to the question is a concentration on "quality rather than quantity", more individual attention to a smaller group. Other conventional panaceas are: to raise scholastic requirements before and during college, or, secondly, to effect, by contact with culture, a change of undergraduate heart...
Haverford College, in Pennsylvania, the oldest of the American Quaker colleges, is preparing to celebrate its centenary, and the addresses made at its convocation ceremonies are significant of a trend among American educators. "The country needs an exhibit of quality rather than quantity in education," said President Comfort, announcing a new program which will give every older student the individual attention hitherto reserved for honors students, and the address of President Lowell of Harvard echoed the thought...