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Word: comfortless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace, or died of exhaustion, comfortless and forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the World of the Dead | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Russia's millions faced a comfortless, bitter winter, but probably few would actually freeze or starve. The people rejoiced that the Red Armies were well supplied with food, clothing and fuel, that the 20° and 30° frosts only a few weeks off would freeze the thin blood of the German invaders more quickly than their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: As Winter Comes | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...these are cold and comfortless words of welcome, they are not meant to be. You will know that, surely, even before you go to your first class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1944 | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

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