Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singles.--Crosby (A.) defeated A. D. Knox (H.), 6-3, 6-4; M. Duane (H.) defeated White (A.), 6-1, 8-6; Sheridan (A.) defeated G. C. Guild (H.), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Comfort (A.) defeated R. W. Hoskins (H.), 6-2, 6-2; Grabau (H.) defeated Snow...
Doubles.--Grabau and Hoskins (H.) defeated Comfort and White (A.), 3-6, 6-0, 6-3; Knox and Duane (H.) defeated Crosby and Haviland (A.), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Guild and Frost (H.) defeated Sheridan and Snow (A.), 6-2, 6-2. Total...
...like the blending of gin and vermouth? Or does it mean acting together, but one sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows--and nobody seems to care." All we may do is to be philosophical like the valet, who tried to comfort his master in an agony of gout with the words: "It's not your fault, sir. You really cawn't help your constitution...
...Here then, in the settlement of these problems of industry, is the duty of the University. In the first place it must be an institution dedicated to systematic and organized thought constantly generating an atmosphere of disinterested thinking. The University should constantly remind us that familiarity of comfort is not the only test of a theory; it must make us ever mindful of the fallibility of the familiar. It must teach us that simply because we are accustomed to social conceptions, we ought not to be unwilling to constantly test and question these theories to see if they stand...
...education fulfill our hopes unless there is more monetary stimulus to draw able men into the teaching profession? At present, there are innumerable examples of young college graduates, eminently fitted for an academic life, who shun such a future solely because they are unable to forego the comfort for themselves and their families which they are able so easily to earn in other fields...