Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting as the thought is, yet there is comfort in it. The Union has long been striving to uphold its reputation as a club for undergraduates; when, cheerless almost to formidableness, deserted, and forgotten, it determined to begin its life anew, who would have thought such a metamorphosis possible? But it was not only possible,--it has been demonstrated in an undeniable manner. The bell-hops have proven an unanswerable rebuttal...
After introductory jibes at his "old friend, Captain Hale," Dr. Norman Thomas bitterly assailed a system of life that did not produce "comfort and freedom for all." He explained that the Socialists had no cut and dried platform but were working for government in which "only the best motives were developed...
Whether the course be justified or no, it seems evident that the majority of the voters in this country will take the cost of living to be the paramount issue of the November elections. The average man is a selfish beast, and holds his material comfort at home above the welfare of his more distant neighbors. Self-interest is a natural instinct, and by more than one token is it apparent that the hopes of business prosperity, more nearly equable tariff adjustments, trade stimulation and national economy which the election of a Republican ticket seems to insure, will prevail over...
President Lowell then drew attention to the singular pertinence of this moral to the life of a forcible man in the "ordinary currents of our time." During the war there was the comfort of having a plain duty to perform, with no moral questions to decide. The great object, never lost from sight, was winning the victory; a man's duty his courses prescribed, was to obey orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes...
...that the race will be started at 5 even if conditions are not completely favorable. This is absurd. There is far too much in the balance to allow the weather to play even a minor part in the outcome. The men have trained too long to even consider the comfort of the crowd rather than the absolute merits of the crews. Pray for a fair day indeed but if it be otherwise by all means let the burden not be on the crews. --Yale News...