Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between its various elements, "especially when we consider the deleterious effects, on the health and morale of a selected personnel, of permitting a reduction of the standard allowances of heat, ventilation, water and light." Modern battleship design, as every one knows, seeks to eliminate waste space, waste weight, superfluous comfort...
...automobile has been blamed for much. Accused of corrupting the manners and temper of the American people it spitefully waxes fat with comfort and luxury. But while it may stupidly ignore the choice oaths of two score languages, it must bitterly resent the statements of Mr. Ramiro De Maezter...
...strangers was adhered to and the gifts were all returned by registered mail, allegedly costing the Baron no trifling sum for postage. It was stated that from 10 to 40 letters 'daily are received from admiring females whose sole request is for an autographed photograph. Even this trifling comfort has to be denied them. But they receive a form letter, expressing profound regret...
...children," she said, "I spare not my youngest even, my fair-haired boy, the comfort of my declining years; I devote you all to my country. Keep, back the foot of the invader from the soil of Augusta, or see my face no more...
...installed? If unfit and corrupt men have been put and kept in office and left to their devices, is it a sufficient defense that the Administration was not actually desirous of dishonesty? If the wounded veteran has been defrauded of the care that was his due, is there any comfort to him in the fact that Congress made lavish appropriations...