Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the fuel rationing Dr. Yaglou stated that it does not guarantee an indoor temperature of 65 degrees, but assures only a just and equitable share of the available supply. He stressed that the rationing plan does not assure the same degree of comfort in all homes unless home owners make every effort to reduce fuel needs by the use of insulation and by raising the efficiency of the heating plant...
...Cold Comfort. This was the hope and promise that warmed the citizens of the 17 oil-rationed Eastern states as they shivered in winter's coldest weather. But hope was nearly all they had to keep them warm: the fuel-oil shortage had at last reached the crest of the crisis...
This helped, but the greatest comfort for Eastern citizens, even though it was cold comfort, was that the worst month of winter was now over and that by March the supply would finally once again meet the demand (see chart). There were still 40 days to go. They might be troubled days; but spring would bring relief...
...contortions, however, were not enough to convince the correspondent, who roundly denounced the turban as being too loose. Mahindra, his Indian pride affronted, could take small comfort in the fact that he had at least effectively disproved the hatter's fable that "no one wears a hat at Harvard...
...peaceful times it would be my task to tell you of the pleasant colleges years ahead of you and to forecast for you lives of intelligence, comfort, and gracious living. Today that sort of message would be an absurdity. You are not Harvard men merely by the agreeable application of an established usage. You--and all the other young men in America of your age--were forced to a sudden maturity by the tragedy of December...