Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as the English long ago did away with royal autocracy, they can find no comfort in a despotic executive. Their mandates threaten to cost them over twenty-eight billions of pounds in the coming year, and have already involved them in complications with other governments, notably with the United States. This burden has been assumed not only without the consent of the English people but in the face of a conspicuous lack of precedent. With former German possessions still being parcelled about by the League, it is only just that assumption of these mandates be subject to parliamentary control...
Inconventent as the re-establishment of the "Iron dollar" may be, one source of comfort still remains to us. Think of the satisfying weight and pleasant jingle of the silver dollar as it lies ensconced in the waistcoat pocket...
...month this year means the difference between living in a satisfactory or unsatisfactory room for nine or ten months next year. By early application, both the College and the undergraduate benefit; the College in the further facility and efficiency of its clerical work; the undergraduate in the future comfort of his college life...
...certainly not what G. K. Chesterton calls English universities: "The playground of the rich"; practically every man in the colleges of this country intends to work for his living. That is as it should be; but there in little sanity in working for what cannot be enjoyed; and comfort is not the half of enjoyment. A comfortable living in much to be desired; but there is no reason why it should entirely crowd out social, intellectual, educational service, the "levelling up" of the nation. College men are most fitted to be the motive forces for better conditions by heritage, endowment...
...home for the holidays. One of them said at Thanksgiving that the party was like a "pat on the back from his mother." It cooperates with a Faculty committee which maintains the University Teas, seven in number, where students may meet professors "off duty." It gives friendly advice and comfort to students who are sick or in trouble...