Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only $763, Northwest Airlines and a group of enterprising bush pilots would fly anglers from New York direct to an Alaskan river which boasts trout as big as baseball bats; New England skippers would provide the picturesque discomfort of a sailing ship cruise on the open Atlantic for only $60; and many a summer hotel was advertising not only tennis, golf, and hayloft theatricals, but "cultural lectures" on Freud and Thomas Aquinas...
...Communists' discomfort, the government announced on the day following the election that it planned to adopt soon "a fundamental policy of outlawing" the Communist Party...
Housemaster David M. Little '18 said that the unlimited system, which operated after 6:20 p.m. each night except Wednesday, had caused overcrowding and discomfort...
...Lampoon," has jumped leagues to write the best story of the lot. Called "Ronny," it describes with understanding the gap between the emotions of a small boy and his mother. Far different and nearly as good is Sherman Funk's "The Way to Travel." Funk rehashes the told, bruising discomfort of two squads in an Army six-by-six truck. His description of discomfort is no more vivid than that in a dozen war novels, but it is remarkable to find the "Advocate" writing on the level of the good war novel, and Funk's episode is bright and quietly...
Around the machines drifts a dense fog of mathematics, a sort of intellectual tear gas to discomfort the nonmathematical. The machines speak and understand a special language of numbers. These are not "decimal," as ordinary numbers are, built on a base of ten with digits running from 0 to 9. They are "binary" numbers with a base of two, and have only two digits: 0 and 1. In this style of arithmetic, 0 is 0; 1 is i. But 2 is written...