Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Poincaré, who is also Foreign Minister, sent police to view the offending scene, which was later suppressed to the great comfort of the British Ambassador but to the equally great discomfort of the Parisians who had found the scene extremely droll...
...very obviously no experiment, but a permanent fixture in the automotive industry. From comprising only 10% of the output of the industry in 1919, this type of car now represents 35% of annual production. Motor car leaders attribute this striking increase in closed models principally to their greater comfort in poor weather,their greater cleanliness at all times, their distinct economy in the long run, their generally better appearance. The increasing tendency for state officials to keep the main highways open the year round is also held to have stimulated the buying of closed cars...
...with regard to the Freshman teams, it may be said that they are often a great comfort in times of trouble and no worry at all in times of good fortune. If one can say--"Ah, but our freshmen"-- with a rising inflection, the gloom of varsity defeats can be somewhat dispelled. And if the University emerges triumphant, the misfortune of the Freshmen can be easily dismissed with a shrug--"Ah, the freshmen--." As anyone can see, this is a great advantage...
...away in pitch darkness broken intermittently by searchlights. The gunners destroyed three of the target gliders, demonstrating the effectiveness of anti-aircraft defense even at night, and the fliers came down safely. But the slightest miscalculation would have meant death. Hundreds of persons at Willoughby Beach and Old Point Comfort (Va.) witnessed the manuevers, heard shells burst 5,000 feet above their heads...
...sanitary war against the mosquito and the housefly knows no armistice. While the Anopheles and Aedes aegypti, carriers of malaria and yellow fever germs, respectively, are not indigenous to the Northern States, nevertheless the common Culex is a menace to health and comfort...