Word: boredoms
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...planes go up, and Sunday afternoons the others, and there are always passenger planes coming in or taking off. Sunday afternoons during the summer there is sometimes a special program, and in any case a flight, or even the sight of others trying it, is a certain cure for boredom...
...Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course by "palace car" (early Pullman). Julia's plaints of their continual traveling, her vehement assertions that Chicago is her home, "worth all London Paris & New York put together," ring a little false, her boredom is a little showy; but she had another cause for ennui: ill health. Undergoing the rigors of a Manhattan dress-fitting one day she suddenly keeled over. Afterwards she admitted to her diary: "I always wanted to faint once, just to know how it felt; & it is very nasty; however...
...liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean requires, and somehow by the end of the year one has osmotically infused enough French to pass the reading requirement...
...criticism to be made of this course is in the laboratory personel. The assistants are for the most part students studying for their master's degree, and they perform their work of drilling elementary chemistry into their charges, both in the laboratory and in the section meeting, with obvious boredom and occasional ignorance. With a few exceptions, their teaching talent...
Asked if his brand of soul vibrations might not prove in the end tedious. Dr. Goebbels slapped his thigh. "You know me!" he cried. "I am a sworn enemy of every sort of boredom! . . . Best of all, our propaganda is not going to cost the German people anything. Instead my Ministry cannot fail to show a profit- the radio advertising, you know...