Word: snug
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...been decided to use the house which Professor Palmer's presence has made a sacred spot as a residence for the Chairman of the Committee on Admissions. All the rooms are well-lighted and the snug colonial atmosphere of the structure, now well over 150 years old, make the house ideal for a home of a faculty member...
...McAlpin and to the dozens of other private corset exhibits in Manhattan. Corsets are today the best paying department in nearly every biggish store. No matter how much he may lose on his dresses or his stockings through price-cutting and competition, the store manager can count on a snug income from corsets. Early in Depression he was persuaded by the corset-makers, a shrewd and clannish lot, to protect the corset. The manufacturers promised to keep their prices on quality lines stable, if the retailers would do the same. They even designated how much profit the retailer should make...
...diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging the 12-ft. rock tube to hold cast-iron tunnel sections 44 ft. in diameter. When all the cast-iron rings had been linked together, cement was pumped under pressure into a one-foot space around the gigantic metal tube. Lighting for the tunnel...
...East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier not in the least inconveniencing the King and Queen) and on to the snug East Prussian station of Freystadt where they were met by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg...
...20th anniversary of the Sarajevo murders the World Press was full of solemn editorials but in Sarajevo survivors of the plot took their ease in the snug cafe of Papa Semiz on King Peter's Street...