Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annapolis or five percent of experienced sailors. Practically all, officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing of navigation and naval technique was of less importance than that "their minds were alert, their hearts filled with an intense enthusiasm for the cause, their souls clean...
...Union Society held a debate on Tuesday, November 21, on the subject of women's emancipation. The women are not allowed to attend Union debates but they are allowed to watch the proceedings from the Gallery which was on this occasion crowded out. They received cold comfort however, for by a majority of 103 it was decided, after a heated discussion, that a modification of the present course of female emancipation was desirable...
There is much for our age to regret, and what few crumbs of comfort can be scraped together should be seized with avidity. No opportunity should be allowed to slip by. Think what a charming lecturer William Hohenzollern, formerly a man of some note in Prussia, would prove, with his variety of subjects, from the science of wood-chopping to "From White House to Log-Cabin." And how entertaining would be Herr Hindenburg's "Line...
...love of their parents who desire to give their children opportunities which they did not enjoy. The countless gifts to colleges, to hospitals, to libraries, for parks, playgrounds and for other public purposes, give evidence of unshaken faith in the future and of a never satisfied ambition to give comfort and help to others. The nation-wide gratification in the success of the Conference for Limitation of Armaments speaks eloquently of the spirit of fraternity and good will over-flowing the hearts of a worthy people...
...such complaints there are several antidotal thoughts. There is no law compelling any American to go abroad to spend his money. He can be exploited with equal comfort if not equal speed at home. If he insists upon spending his money abroad he is contributing so called invisible exports to the balancing of trade and the reconstruction of Europe. One hundred and fifty million dollars a year is worth while to Europe. If Americans are "robbed" let them try to believe themselves "robbed" in a good cause and be sports about it. Otherwise, let them see America first. Chicago Tribune