Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess I'll let you read...
...School grows but slowly in numbers. Certain departments, however, are working well up to their present capacity, and the number of postgraduate students should not be materially increased without additional facilities, especially more space. For a time, at least, the Faculty must comfort itself in the thought that the School is getting so many young men from such widely scattered communities, in spite of the opportunities for engineering education in the state-supported universities...
...Point Comfort...
Chesapeake Bay lay flat and balmy, but corners of the sky looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
...people are talking about the return of respectability. Here* is proof that they may be right. A young lady, once frisky as you please, writes a book about Romance being all very well but not half so dependable as the sterling oldtime conventions?emphasis on family, worldly goods, comfort and the like...