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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfort I felt upon seeing Holworthy was not the sensation of mom's milk and cookies after school...

Author: By Lindsay H. Tomenson, | Title: The Sensation of Belonging | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...This comfort sprang from knowing that the people who lived in Holworthy 23 might not be able to write my Expos paper or take my Ec 10 hourly, but they would smile and laugh and somehow make the mountains of tasks more bearable...

Author: By Lindsay H. Tomenson, | Title: The Sensation of Belonging | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...think she valued other people's comfort before her own," said Jennifer R. Weiss '99, who was with Craig in Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-Year Killed by Auto | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Rooms in the houses, which tended to be organized in large, airy suites containing bathrooms, were considered more desirable than housing at Radcliffe, where rooms were often on a long hallway with communal bathrooms. Because of the comfort factor, as well as the considerable distance between the academic buildings and the Quad, many women were anxious to move to the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Solidify Relationship | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...will take more than just the doffing of a tie to make voters see Bob Dole, Kansan, instead of Bob Dole, Capitol Kingpin. But there is consolation if they don't. Now that he has, as he put it so eloquently, left "behind all the trappings of power, all comfort and all security," he can ascend to what Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the highest office in a democracy, above even that of the presidency: citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE HARD WAY | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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