Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they spoke I realized that, in my excitement over the light and efficiency of the new, I had forgotten the comfort and dusty elegance of the old. Warren House was home to many English department members for a very long time. Despite, or more accurately because of, its creaking stairs and dark hallways, it seemed to fit right into one part of the mythical Harvard academic atmosphere...
...opus, paid for by 18 federal agencies, probably got the attention it did because it offers so much comfort to parents whose little Mary doesn't make a move without calling her pal Molly, while treating Mom like a potted plant. "The power and the importance of parents continue to persist, even into late adolescence," says University of Minnesota professor Michael Resnick, the lead author of the survey. A reassuring finding: although your child may seem to ignore you, she is living off the remnants of the bond built during the years before getting her ears pierced was the most...
...appreciate the company. Really, I do. Having people around serves up a special kind of comfort for the sometimes lonely soul who gets caught in the self-involved activities that we all do. But it makes it all the more easy for me to use them as an excuse to avoid the run I had intended to go on, the story I wanted to write, the book I wanted to read. The presence of people has the unfortunate drawback of being a convenient distraction away from myself...
...fallen heavily on the believers. Yale has decided that living in a dormitory is fundamental to the Yale education, because of the debate cohabitation sparks and even the difficulties such as these that accompany accepting the lifestyles of those around you. If the Yale Five must live in the comfort of their own homes, then, for better or for worse, they aren't (at least currently) Yale material...
...shame that the debate over mathematics education must be drawn in such black-and-white terms. Understanding mathematics' most beautiful results requires both a comfort with nuts-and-bolts calculation and creative problem solving. Neglecting either aspect of students' education is not a good formula for success. DANIEL SCHER Livingston...